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But first, please read +. diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44732c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +NAME ?= av-roam +VERSION ?= $(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD) +ARTIFACT ?= $(NAME)_$(VERSION).tar.gz +export + +.DEFAULT_GOAL := build +.PHONY: build test clean + +release: + mkdir release +release/*.md: release + cd release; ../generate.awk ../av.input +release/$(ARTIFACT): release/*.md + cd release; tar czf $(ARTIFACT) *.md +build: release/$(ARTIFACT) + +test/output: + mkdir test/output +test: test/output + test/run.sh + +clean: + rm -f release/* test/output/* diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c17ab7f --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# av-roam +Generates a King James ([Authorized Version](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version)) text that is formatted for import into a Roam Research database. + +It uses Roam markdown and [LaTeX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX) features to approximate the original print as much as possible. + +![note italicized words, section headers, and special treatment of YHWH](doc/example.png) + +## Features + +1. One chapter per note, one verse per block. +1. Navigational metadata: *Previous/Next* chapter links and `#` tags +1. _italicized_ words to indicate translation additions +1. _yhwh_ formatted LORD as in the original print +1. original print paragraph markings and chapter notes +1. KJV Cambridge +1. Table of Contents Page: `KJV` + +## Usage + +1. [Download the current release](https://github.com/pmbauer/av-roam/releases/download/5fa7989/av-roam_5fa7989.tar.gz) and extract locally +2. Use Roam Research `...` menu and select `Import Files` +3. Choose chapters you wish to import. + +## Import Everything +Note that importing a corpus as large as the entire Bible *will* impact your database's performance, so for now it's recommended to import chapters ad-hoc. + +But if you still wish to import everything, there is a [public KJV Roam](https://roamresearch.com/#/app/KJV). +From there you can JSON-export the contents and import into your personal database. +N.B. that version is missing a number of features from the original AV translation: _italicized_ words to indicate translation word additions, footnotes, chapter and section headings (e.g. Psalms 119) + +## Building +```bash +# builds release artifact +make +make build + +# run tests +make test + +# clean up +make clean +``` diff --git a/av.input b/av.input new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4675b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/av.input @@ -0,0 +1,32581 @@ +:::SET TESTAMENT Old +:::SET BOOK Genesis +:::SET TITLE The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. +2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness __was__ upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. +3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. +4 And God saw the light, that __it__ __was__ good: and God divided the light from the darkness. +5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. +6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. +7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which __were__ under the firmament from the waters which __were__ above the firmament: and it was so. +8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. +9 ¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry __land__ appear: and it was so. +10 And God called the dry __land__ Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that __it__ __was__ good. +11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, __and__ the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed __is__ in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. +12 And the earth brought forth grass, __and__ herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed __was__ in itself, after his kind: and God saw that __it__ __was__ good. +13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. +14 ¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: +15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. +16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: __he__ __made__ the stars also. +17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, +18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that __it__ __was__ good. +19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. +20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl __that__ may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. +21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that __it__ __was__ good. +22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. +23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. +24 ¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. +25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that __it__ __was__ good. +26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. +27 So God created man in his __own__ image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. +28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. +29 ¶ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which __is__ upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which __is__ the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. +30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein __there__ __is__ life, __I__ __have__ __given__ every green herb for meat: and it was so. +31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, __it__ __was__ very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. +2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. +3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. +4 ¶ These __are__ the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God made the earth and the heavens, +5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and __there__ __was__ not a man to till the ground. +6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. +7 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God formed man __of__ the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. +8 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. +9 And out of the ground made the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. +10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. +11 The name of the first __is__ Pison: that __is__ it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where __there__ __is__ gold; +12 And the gold of that land __is__ good: there __is__ bdellium and the onyx stone. +13 And the name of the second river __is__ Gihon: the same __is__ it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. +14 And the name of the third river __is__ Hiddekel: that __is__ it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river __is__ Euphrates. +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. +16 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: +17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. +18 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God said, __It__ __is__ not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. +19 And out of the ground the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought __them__ unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that __was__ the name thereof. +20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; +22 And the rib, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. +23 And Adam said, This __is__ now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. +24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. +25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 NOW the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? +2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: +3 But of the fruit of the tree which __is__ in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. +4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: +5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. +6 And when the woman saw that the tree __was__ good for food, and that it __was__ pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make __one__ wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. +7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they __were__ naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. +8 And they heard the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God amongst the trees of the garden. +9 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where __art__ thou? +10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I __was__ naked; and I hid myself. +11 And he said, Who told thee that thou __wast__ naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? +12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest __to__ __be__ with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God said unto the woman, What __is__ this __that__ thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. +14 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou __art__ cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: +15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. +16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire __shall__ __be__ to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. +17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed __is__ the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat __of__ it all the days of thy life; +18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; +19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou __art__, and unto dust shalt thou return. +20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. +21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God make coats of skins, and clothed them. +22 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: +23 Therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. +24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. +3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had respect unto Abel and to his offering: +5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. +6 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? +7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee __shall__ __be__ his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. +8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. +9 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Cain, Where __is__ Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: __Am__ I my brother's keeper? +10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. +11 And now __art__ thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; +12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. +13 And Cain said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, My punishment __is__ greater than I can bear. +14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, __that__ every one that findeth me shall slay me. +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. +16 ¶ And Cain went out from the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. +17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. +18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. +19 ¶ And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one __was__ Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. +20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and __of__ __such__ __as__ __have__ cattle. +21 And his brother's name __was__ Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. +22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain __was__ Naamah. +23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. +24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. +25 ¶ And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, __said__ __she__, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. +26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 THIS __is__ the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; +2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. +3 ¶ And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat __a__ __son__ in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: +4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: +5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. +6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos: +7 And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: +8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. +9 ¶ And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan: +10 And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: +11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died. +12 ¶ And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel: +13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: +14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died. +15 ¶ And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: +16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: +17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died. +18 ¶ And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch: +19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: +20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. +21 ¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: +22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: +23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: +24 And Enoch walked with God: and he __was__ not; for God took him. +25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: +26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters: +27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. +28 ¶ And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: +29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This __same__ shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath cursed. +30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: +31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. +32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, +2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they __were__ fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. +3 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also __is__ flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. +4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare __children__ to them, the same __became__ mighty men which __were__ of old, men of renown. +5 ¶ And $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ saw that the wickedness of man __was__ great in the earth, and __that__ every imagination of the thoughts of his heart __was__ only evil continually. +6 And it repented the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. +7 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. +8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 ¶ These __are__ the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man __and__ perfect in his generations, __and__ Noah walked with God. +10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. +11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. +12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. +13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. +14 ¶ Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. +15 And this __is__ __the__ __fashion__ which thou shalt make it __of:__ The length of the ark __shall__ __be__ three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. +16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; __with__ lower, second, and third __stories__ shalt thou make it. +17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein __is__ the breath of life, from under heaven; __and__ every thing that __is__ in the earth shall die. +18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. +19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every __sort__ shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep __them__ alive with thee; they shall be male and female. +20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every __sort__ shall come unto thee, to keep __them__ alive. +21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather __it__ to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. +22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. +2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that __are__ not clean by two, the male and his female. +3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. +4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. +5 And Noah did according unto all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded him. +6 And Noah __was__ six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. +7 ¶ And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. +8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that __are__ not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, +9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. +10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. +11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. +12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. +13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; +14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. +15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein __is__ the breath of life. +16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shut him in. +17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. +18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. +19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that __were__ under the whole heaven, were covered. +20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. +21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: +22 All in whose nostrils __was__ the breath of life, of all that __was__ in the dry __land__, died. +23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained __alive__, and they that __were__ with him in the ark. +24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that __was__ with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; +2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; +3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. +4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. +5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth __month__, on the first __day__ of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen. +6 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: +7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. +8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; +9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters __were__ on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. +10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; +11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth __was__ an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. +12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. +13 ¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first __month__, the first __day__ of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. +14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. +15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, saying, +16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. +17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that __is__ with thee, of all flesh, __both__ of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. +18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: +19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, __and__ whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark. +20 ¶ And Noah builded an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smelled a sweet savour; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart __is__ evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. +22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. +2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth __upon__ the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. +3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. +4 But flesh with the life thereof, __which__ __is__ the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. +5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. +6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. +7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. +8 ¶ And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, +9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; +10 And with every living creature that __is__ with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. +11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. +12 And God said, This __is__ the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that __is__ with you, for perpetual generations: +13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. +14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: +15 And I will remember my covenant, which __is__ between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. +16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that __is__ upon the earth. +17 And God said unto Noah, This __is__ the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that __is__ upon the earth. +18 ¶ And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham __is__ the father of Canaan. +19 These __are__ the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread. +20 And Noah began __to__ __be__ an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: +21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. +22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. +23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid __it__ upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces __were__ backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. +24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. +25 And he said, Cursed __be__ Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. +26 And he said, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. +27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. +28 ¶ And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. +29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 NOW these __are__ the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. +2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. +3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. +4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. +5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. +6 ¶ And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. +7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. +8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. +9 He was a mighty hunter before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. +11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, +12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same __is__ a great city. +13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, +14 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. +15 ¶ And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, +16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, +17 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, +18 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. +19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. +20 These __are__ the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, __and__ in their nations. +21 ¶ Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were __children__ born. +22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram. +23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash. +24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber. +25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one __was__ Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name __was__ Joktan. +26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, +27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, +28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, +29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these __were__ the sons of Joktan. +30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east. +31 These __are__ the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. +32 These __are__ the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. +2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. +3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. +4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top __may__ __reach__ unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. +6 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Behold, the people __is__ one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. +7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. +8 So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. +9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. +10 ¶ These __are__ the generations of Shem: Shem __was__ an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: +11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. +12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: +13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. +14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: +15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. +16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: +17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. +18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: +19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. +20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: +21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. +22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: +23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. +24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: +25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. +26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. +27 ¶ Now these __are__ the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. +28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. +29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife __was__ Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. +30 But Sarai was barren; she __had__ no child. +31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. +32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 NOW the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: +2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: +3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. +4 So Abram departed, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram __was__ seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. +5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. +6 ¶ And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite __was__ then in the land. +7 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who appeared unto him. +8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, __having__ Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and called upon the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south. +10 ¶ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine __was__ grievous in the land. +11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou __art__ a fair woman to look upon: +12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This __is__ his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. +13 Say, I pray thee, thou __art__ my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. +14 ¶ And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she __was__ very fair. +15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. +16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. +17 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. +18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What __is__ this __that__ thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she __was__ thy wife? +19 Why saidst thou, She __is__ my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take __her__, and go thy way. +20 And Pharaoh commanded __his__ men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. +2 And Abram __was__ very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. +3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai; +4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 ¶ And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. +6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. +7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. +8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we __be__ brethren. +9 __Is__ not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if __thou__ __wilt__ __take__ the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if __thou__ __depart__ to the right hand, then I will go to the left. +10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it __was__ well watered every where, before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, __even__ as the garden of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. +11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. +12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched __his__ tent toward Sodom. +13 But the men of Sodom __were__ wicked and sinners before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ exceedingly. +14 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: +15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. +16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, __then__ shall thy seed also be numbered. +17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. +18 Then Abram removed __his__ tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which __is__ in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AND it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations; +2 __That__ __these__ made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. +3 All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. +4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. +5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that __were__ with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, +6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which __is__ by the wilderness. +7 And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which __is__ Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar. +8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same __is__ Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; +9 With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five. +10 And the vale of Siddim __was__ __full__ __of__ slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. +11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. +12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. +13 ¶ And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these __were__ confederate with Abram. +14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained __servants__, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued __them__ unto Dan. +15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which __is__ on the left hand of Damascus. +16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. +17 ¶ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that __were__ with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which __is__ the king's dale. +18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he __was__ the priest of the most high God. +19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed __be__ Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth: +20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all. +21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. +22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, +23 That I will not __take__ from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that __is__ thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: +24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AFTER these things the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I __am__ thy shield, __and__ thy exceeding great reward. +2 And Abram said, Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house __is__ this Eliezer of Damascus? +3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. +4 And, behold, the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __came__ unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. +5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. +6 And he believed in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and he counted it to him for righteousness. +7 And he said unto him, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. +8 And he said, Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? +9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. +10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. +11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. +12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. +13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land __that__ __is__ not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; +14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. +15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. +16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites __is__ not yet full. +17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. +18 In the same day the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: +19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, +20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, +21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 NOW Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name __was__ Hagar. +2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. +3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. +4 ¶ And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. +5 And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong __be__ upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ judge between me and thee. +6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid __is__ in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. +7 ¶ And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. +8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. +9 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. +10 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. +11 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto her, Behold, thou __art__ with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath heard thy affliction. +12 And he will be a wild man; his hand __will__ __be__ against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. +13 And she called the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? +14 Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, __it__ __is__ between Kadesh and Bered. +15 ¶ And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. +16 And Abram __was__ fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I __am__ the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. +2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. +3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, +4 As for me, behold, my covenant __is__ with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. +5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. +6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. +7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. +8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. +9 ¶ And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. +10 This __is__ my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. +11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. +12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which __is__ not of thy seed. +13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. +14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. +15 ¶ And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah __shall__ her name __be__. +16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be __a__ __mother__ of nations; kings of people shall be of her. +17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall __a__ __child__ be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? +18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! +19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, __and__ with his seed after him. +20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. +21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. +22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. +23 ¶ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. +24 And Abraham __was__ ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. +25 And Ishmael his son __was__ thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. +26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. +27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; +2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw __them__, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, +3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: +4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: +5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. +6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead __it__, and make cakes upon the hearth. +7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave __it__ unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. +8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set __it__ before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. +9 ¶ And they said unto him, Where __is__ Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. +10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard __it__ in the tent door, which __was__ behind him. +11 Now Abraham and Sarah __were__ old __and__ well stricken in age; __and__ it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. +12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? +14 Is any thing too hard for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. +15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. +16 ¶ And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. +17 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; +18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? +19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to do justice and judgment; that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; +21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. +22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 ¶ And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? +24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that __are__ therein? +25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? +26 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. +27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which __am__ __but__ dust and ashes: +28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for __lack__ __of__ five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy __it__. +29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do __it__ for forty's sake. +30 And he said __unto__ __him__, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do __it__, if I find thirty there. +31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy __it__ for twenty's sake. +32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy __it__ for ten's sake. +33 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing __them__ rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; +2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. +3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. +4 ¶ But before they lay down, the men of the city, __even__ the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: +5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where __are__ the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. +6 And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, +7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. +8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as __is__ good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. +9 And they said, Stand back. And they said __again__, This one __fellow__ came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, __even__ Lot, and came near to break the door. +10 But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. +11 And they smote the men that __were__ at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. +12 ¶ And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring __them__ out of this place: +13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sent us to destroy it. +14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law. +15 ¶ And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. +16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. +17 ¶ And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. +18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: +19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die: +20 Behold now, this city __is__ near to flee unto, and it __is__ a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (__is__ it not a little one?) and my soul shall live. +21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken. +22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. +23 ¶ The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. +24 Then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ out of heaven; +25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. +26 ¶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. +27 ¶ And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. +29 ¶ And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. +30 ¶ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. +31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father __is__ old, and __there__ __is__ not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: +32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. +33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. +34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, __and__ lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. +35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. +36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. +37 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same __is__ the father of the Moabites unto this day. +38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same __is__ the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. +2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She __is__ my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. +3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou __art__ __but__ a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she __is__ a man's wife. +4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? +5 Said he not unto me, She __is__ my sister? and she, even she herself said, He __is__ my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. +6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. +7 Now therefore restore the man __his__ wife; for he __is__ a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore __her__ not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that __are__ thine. +8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid. +9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done. +10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? +11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God __is__ not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. +12 And yet indeed __she__ __is__ my sister; she __is__ the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. +13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This __is__ thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He __is__ my brother. +14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave __them__ unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife. +15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land __is__ before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. +16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand __pieces__ of silver: behold, he __is__ to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that __are__ with thee, and with all __other:__ thus she was reproved. +17 ¶ So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare __children__. +18 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ visited Sarah as he had said, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did unto Sarah as he had spoken. +2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. +3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. +4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. +5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. +6 ¶ And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, __so__ __that__ all that hear will laugh with me. +7 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born __him__ a son in his old age. +8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the __same__ day that Isaac was weaned. +9 ¶ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking. +10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, __even__ with Isaac. +11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. +12 ¶ And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. +13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he __is__ thy seed. +14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave __it__ unto Hagar, putting __it__ on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. +15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. +16 And she went, and sat her down over against __him__ a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against __him__, and lift up her voice, and wept. +17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he __is__. +18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation. +19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. +20 And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. +21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. +22 ¶ And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God __is__ with thee in all that thou doest: +23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: __but__ according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. +24 And Abraham said, I will swear. +25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. +26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I __of__ __it__, but to day. +27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant. +28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. +29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What __mean__ these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? +30 And he said, For __these__ seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. +31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. +32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. +33 ¶ And __Abraham__ planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the everlasting God. +34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 AND it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, __here__ I __am__. +2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only __son__ Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. +3 ¶ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. +4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. +5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. +6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid __it__ upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. +7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here __am__ I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where __is__ the lamb for a burnt offering? +8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. +9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. +10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. +11 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here __am__ I. +12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only __son__ from me. +13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind __him__ a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. +14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said __to__ this day, In the mount of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ it shall be seen. +15 ¶ And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, +16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only __son:__ +17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which __is__ upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; +18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. +19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. +20 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; +21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, +22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. +23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. +24 And his concubine, whose name __was__ Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 AND Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: __these__ __were__ the years of the life of Sarah. +2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same __is__ Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. +3 ¶ And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, +4 I __am__ a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. +5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, +6 Hear us, my lord: thou __art__ a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. +7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, __even__ to the children of Heth. +8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, +9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which __is__ in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you. +10 And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, __even__ of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying, +11 Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that __is__ therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead. +12 And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land. +13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou __wilt__ __give__ __it__, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take __it__ of me, and I will bury my dead there. +14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, +15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land __is__ __worth__ four hundred shekels of silver; what __is__ that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. +16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current __money__ with the merchant. +17 ¶ And the field of Ephron, which __was__ in Machpelah, which __was__ before Mamre, the field, and the cave which __was__ therein, and all the trees that __were__ in the field, that __were__ in all the borders round about, were made sure +18 Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. +19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same __is__ Hebron in the land of Canaan. +20 And the field, and the cave that __is__ therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AND Abraham was old, __and__ well stricken in age: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had blessed Abraham in all things. +2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: +3 And I will make thee swear by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: +4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. +5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? +6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. +7 ¶ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. +8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again. +9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. +10 ¶ And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master __were__ in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. +11 And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, __even__ the time that women go out to draw __water__. +12 And he said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. +13 Behold, I stand __here__ by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: +14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: __let__ __the__ __same__ __be__ she __that__ thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. +15 ¶ And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. +16 And the damsel __was__ very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. +17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher. +18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. +19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw __water__ for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. +20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw __water__, and drew for all his camels. +21 And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had made his journey prosperous or not. +22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten __shekels__ weight of gold; +23 And said, Whose daughter __art__ thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room __in__ thy father's house for us to lodge in? +24 And she said unto him, I __am__ the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor. +25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. +26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 And he said, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I __being__ in the way, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ led me to the house of my master's brethren. +28 And the damsel ran, and told __them__ __of__ her mother's house these things. +29 ¶ And Rebekah had a brother, and his name __was__ Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well. +30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well. +31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels. +32 ¶ And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that __were__ with him. +33 And there was set __meat__ before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. +34 And he said, I __am__ Abraham's servant. +35 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses. +36 And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath. +37 And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: +38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son. +39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me. +40 And he said unto me, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house: +41 Then shalt thou be clear from __this__ my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee __one__, thou shalt be clear from my oath. +42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go: +43 Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw __water__, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; +44 And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: __let__ the same __be__ the woman whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath appointed out for my master's son. +45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew __water:__ and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee. +46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her __shoulder__, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also. +47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter __art__ thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands. +48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and blessed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son. +49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left. +50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. +51 Behold, Rebekah __is__ before thee, take __her__, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken. +52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __bowing__ __himself__ to the earth. +53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave __them__ to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things. +54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that __were__ with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. +55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us __a__ __few__ days, at the least ten; after that she shall go. +56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master. +57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth. +58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. +59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. +60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou __art__ our sister, be thou __the__ __mother__ of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them. +61 ¶ And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way. +62 And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country. +63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels __were__ coming. +64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. +65 For she __had__ said unto the servant, What man __is__ this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant __had__ said, It __is__ my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself. +66 And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done. +67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's __death__. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 THEN again Abraham took a wife, and her name __was__ Keturah. +2 And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. +3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. +4 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these __were__ the children of Keturah. +5 ¶ And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. +6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. +7 And these __are__ the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. +8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full __of__ __years;__ and was gathered to his people. +9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which __is__ before Mamre; +10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. +11 ¶ And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi. +12 ¶ Now these __are__ the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham: +13 And these __are__ the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, +14 And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, +15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: +16 These __are__ the sons of Ishmael, and these __are__ their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations. +17 And these __are__ the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people. +18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that __is__ before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: __and__ he died in the presence of all his brethren. +19 ¶ And these __are__ the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: +20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. +21 And Isaac intreated the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for his wife, because she __was__ barren: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. +22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If __it__ __be__ so, why __am__ I thus? And she went to inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto her, Two nations __are__ in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and __the__ __one__ people shall be stronger than __the__ __other__ people; and the elder shall serve the younger. +24 ¶ And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, __there__ __were__ twins in her womb. +25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. +26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac __was__ threescore years old when she bare them. +27 And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob __was__ a plain man, dwelling in tents. +28 And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of __his__ venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob. +29 ¶ And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he __was__ faint: +30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red __pottage;__ for I __am__ faint: therefore was his name called Edom. +31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. +32 And Esau said, Behold, I __am__ at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? +33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. +34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised __his__ birthright. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 AND there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: +3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; +4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; +5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. +6 ¶ And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: +7 And the men of the place asked __him__ of his wife; and he said, She __is__ my sister: for he feared to say, __She__ __is__ my wife; lest, __said__ __he__, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she __was__ fair to look upon. +8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac __was__ sporting with Rebekah his wife. +9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she __is__ thy wife: and how saidst thou, She __is__ my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. +10 And Abimelech said, What __is__ this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. +11 And Abimelech charged all __his__ people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. +12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ blessed him. +13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: +14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. +15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. +16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. +17 ¶ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. +18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. +19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. +20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water __is__ ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. +21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. +22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. +23 And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. +24 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto him the same night, and said, I __am__ the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I __am__ with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. +25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well. +26 ¶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. +27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? +28 And they said, We saw certainly that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, __even__ betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; +29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou __art__ now the blessed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. +31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. +32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water. +33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city __is__ Beer-sheba unto this day. +34 ¶ And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: +35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 AND it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, __here__ __am__ I. +2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: +3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me __some__ venison; +4 And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring __it__ to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. +5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt __for__ venison, __and__ to bring __it__. +6 ¶ And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, +7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ before my death. +8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. +9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth: +10 And thou shalt bring __it__ to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death. +11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother __is__ a hairy man, and I __am__ a smooth man: +12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. +13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me __be__ thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me __them__. +14 And he went, and fetched, and brought __them__ to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved. +15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which __were__ with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son: +16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck: +17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. +18 ¶ And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here __am__ I; who __art__ thou, my son? +19 And Jacob said unto his father, I __am__ Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. +20 And Isaac said unto his son, How __is__ __it__ that thou hast found __it__ so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God brought __it__ to me. +21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou __be__ my very son Esau or not. +22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice __is__ Jacob's voice, but the hands __are__ the hands of Esau. +23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. +24 And he said, __Art__ thou my very son Esau? And he said, I __am__. +25 And he said, Bring __it__ near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought __it__ near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. +26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. +27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son __is__ as the smell of a field which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath blessed: +28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: +29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed __be__ every one that curseth thee, and blessed __be__ he that blesseth thee. +30 ¶ And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. +31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. +32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who __art__ thou? And he said, I __am__ thy son, thy firstborn Esau. +33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where __is__ he that hath taken venison, and brought __it__ me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, __and__ he shall be blessed. +34 And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, __even__ me also, O my father. +35 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. +36 And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me? +37 And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? +38 And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, __even__ me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. +39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; +40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. +41 ¶ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. +42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, __purposing__ to kill thee. +43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran; +44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; +45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget __that__ which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? +46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these __which__ __are__ of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 AND Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. +2 Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. +3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; +4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. +5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. +6 ¶ When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; +7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram; +8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; +9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. +10 ¶ And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. +11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put __them__ __for__ his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. +12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. +13 And, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stood above it, and said, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; +14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. +15 And, behold, I __am__ with thee, and will keep thee in all __places__ whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done __that__ which I have spoken to thee of. +16 ¶ And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is in this place; and I knew __it__ not. +17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful __is__ this place! this __is__ none other but the house of God, and this __is__ the gate of heaven. +18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put __for__ his pillows, and set it up __for__ a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. +19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city __was__ __called__ Luz at the first. +20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, +21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be my God: +22 And this stone, which I have set __for__ a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 THEN Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. +2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there __were__ three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone __was__ upon the well's mouth. +3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place. +4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence __be__ ye? And they said, Of Haran __are__ we. +5 And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know __him__. +6 And he said unto them, __Is__ he well? And they said, __He__ __is__ well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. +7 And he said, Lo, __it__ __is__ yet high day, neither __is__ __it__ time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go __and__ feed __them__. +8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and __till__ they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep. +9 ¶ And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. +10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. +11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. +12 And Jacob told Rachel that he __was__ her father's brother, and that he __was__ Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father. +13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. +14 And Laban said to him, Surely thou __art__ my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. +15 ¶ And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou __art__ my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what __shall__ thy wages __be?__ +16 And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder __was__ Leah, and the name of the younger __was__ Rachel. +17 Leah __was__ tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. +18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. +19 And Laban said, __It__ __is__ better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. +20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him __but__ a few days, for the love he had to her. +21 ¶ And Jacob said unto Laban, Give __me__ my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. +22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. +23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her. +24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid __for__ an handmaid. +25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it __was__ Leah: and he said to Laban, What __is__ this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? +26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. +27 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. +28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. +29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. +30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. +31 ¶ And when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saw that Leah __was__ hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel __was__ barren. +32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. +33 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath heard that I __was__ hated, he hath therefore given me this __son__ also: and she called his name Simeon. +34 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi. +35 And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 AND when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. +2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, __Am__ I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? +3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. +4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. +5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. +6 And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan. +7 And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. +8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. +9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. +10 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son. +11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. +12 And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son. +13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher. +14 ¶ And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. +15 And she said unto her, __Is__ __it__ a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes. +16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night. +17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son. +18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. +19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. +20 And Leah said, God hath endued me __with__ a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun. +21 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. +22 ¶ And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. +23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: +24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall add to me another son. +25 ¶ And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. +26 Give __me__ my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. +27 And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, __tarry:__ __for__ I have learned by experience that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath blessed me for thy sake. +28 And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give __it__. +29 And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. +30 For __it__ __was__ little which thou hadst before I __came__, and it is __now__ increased unto a multitude; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? +31 And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed __and__ keep thy flock: +32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and __of__ __such__ shall be my hire. +33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that __is__ not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. +34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. +35 And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, __and__ every one that had __some__ white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave __them__ into the hand of his sons. +36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. +37 ¶ And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which __was__ in the rods. +38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. +39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. +40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. +41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. +42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put __them__ not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. +43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 AND he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that __was__ our father's; and of __that__ which __was__ our father's hath he gotten all this glory. +2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it __was__ not toward him as before. +3 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee. +4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, +5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it __is__ not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me. +6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. +7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. +8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked. +9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given __them__ to me. +10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle __were__ ringstraked, speckled, and grisled. +11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, __saying__, Jacob: And I said, Here __am__ I. +12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle __are__ ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. +13 I __am__ the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, __and__ where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. +14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, __Is__ __there__ yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? +15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money. +16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that __is__ ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. +17 ¶ Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels; +18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. +19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that __were__ her father's. +20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. +21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face __toward__ the mount Gilead. +22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. +23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. +24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. +25 ¶ Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead. +26 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives __taken__ with the sword? +27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp? +28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in __so__ doing. +29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. +30 And now, __though__ thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, __yet__ wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? +31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. +32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what __is__ thine with me, and take __it__ to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. +33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found __them__ not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. +34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found __them__ not. +35 And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women __is__ upon me. And he searched, but found not the images. +36 ¶ And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What __is__ my trespass? what __is__ my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me? +37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set __it__ here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. +38 This twenty years __have__ I __been__ with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. +39 That which was torn __of__ __beasts__ I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, __whether__ stolen by day, or stolen by night. +40 __Thus__ I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. +41 Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. +42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked __thee__ yesternight. +43 ¶ And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, __These__ daughters __are__ my daughters, and __these__ children __are__ my children, and __these__ cattle __are__ my cattle, and all that thou seest __is__ mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? +44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. +45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up __for__ a pillar. +46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. +47 And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. +48 And Laban said, This heap __is__ a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; +49 And Mizpah; for he said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. +50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take __other__ wives beside my daughters, no man __is__ with us; see, God __is__ witness betwixt me and thee. +51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold __this__ pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee; +52 This heap __be__ witness, and __this__ pillar __be__ witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. +53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac. +54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount. +55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +1 AND Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. +2 And when Jacob saw them, he said, This __is__ God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim. +3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. +4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now: +5 And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. +6 ¶ And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. +7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that __was__ with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands; +8 And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape. +9 ¶ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: +10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands. +11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, __and__ the mother with the children. +12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. +13 ¶ And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; +14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, +15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. +16 And he delivered __them__ into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. +17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose __art__ thou? and whither goest thou? and whose __are__ these before thee? +18 Then thou shalt say, __They__ __be__ thy servant Jacob's; it __is__ a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he __is__ behind us. +19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him. +20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob __is__ behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me. +21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. +22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. +23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. +24 ¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. +25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. +26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. +27 And he said unto him, What __is__ thy name? And he said, Jacob. +28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. +29 And Jacob asked __him__, and said, Tell __me__, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore __is__ it __that__ thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. +30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. +31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. +32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not __of__ the sinew which shrank, which __is__ upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 AND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. +2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. +3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. +4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. +5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who __are__ those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. +6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. +7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. +8 And he said, What __meanest__ thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, __These__ __are__ to find grace in the sight of my lord. +9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. +10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. +11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took __it__. +12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. +13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children __are__ tender, and the flocks and herds with young __are__ with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. +14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. +15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee __some__ of the folk that __are__ with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord. +16 ¶ So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. +17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. +18 ¶ And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which __is__ in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. +19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money. +20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +1 AND Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. +2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. +3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. +4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife. +5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come. +6 ¶ And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him. +7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard __it:__ and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done. +8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife. +9 And make ye marriages with us, __and__ give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. +10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein. +11 And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. +12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife. +13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister: +14 And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that __were__ a reproach unto us: +15 But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we __be__, that every male of you be circumcised; +16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. +17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone. +18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son. +19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he __was__ more honourable than all the house of his father. +20 ¶ And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying, +21 These men __are__ peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for the land, behold, __it__ __is__ large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. +22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they __are__ circumcised. +23 __Shall__ not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs __be__ ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. +24 And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. +25 ¶ And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. +26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. +27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. +28 They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which __was__ in the city, and that which __was__ in the field, +29 And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that __was__ in the house. +30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I __being__ few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. +31 And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot? +:::SET CHAPTER 35 +1 AND God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. +2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that __were__ with him, Put away the strange gods that __are__ among you, and be clean, and change your garments: +3 And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. +4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which __were__ in their hand, and __all__ __their__ earrings which __were__ in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which __was__ by Shechem. +5 And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that __were__ round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. +6 ¶ So Jacob came to Luz, which __is__ in the land of Canaan, that __is__, Beth-el, he and all the people that __were__ with him. +7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. +8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. +9 ¶ And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. +10 And God said unto him, Thy name __is__ Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. +11 And God said unto him, I __am__ God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; +12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. +13 And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. +14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, __even__ a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. +15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el. +16 ¶ And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. +17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. +18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. +19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which __is__ Beth-lehem. +20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that __is__ the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. +21 ¶ And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar. +22 And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard __it__. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: +23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: +24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: +25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: +26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these __are__ the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram. +27 ¶ And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which __is__ Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned. +28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. +29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, __being__ old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. +:::SET CHAPTER 36 +1 NOW these __are__ the generations of Esau, who __is__ Edom. +2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; +3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. +4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; +5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these __are__ the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. +6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. +7 For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. +8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau __is__ Edom. +9 ¶ And these __are__ the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: +10 These __are__ the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau. +11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. +12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these __were__ the sons of Adah Esau's wife. +13 And these __are__ the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. +14 ¶ And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. +15 ¶ These __were__ dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn __son__ of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, +16 Duke Korah, duke Gatam, __and__ duke Amalek: these __are__ the dukes __that__ __came__ of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these __were__ the sons of Adah. +17 ¶ And these __are__ the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these __are__ the dukes __that__ __came__ of Reuel in the land of Edom; these __are__ the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife. +18 ¶ And these __are__ the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these __were__ the dukes __that__ __came__ of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. +19 These __are__ the sons of Esau, who __is__ Edom, and these __are__ their dukes. +20 ¶ These __are__ the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, +21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these __are__ the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom. +22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister __was__ Timna. +23 And the children of Shobal __were__ these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. +24 And these __are__ the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this __was__ __that__ Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. +25 And the children of Anah __were__ these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah. +26 And these __are__ the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. +27 The children of Ezer __are__ these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. +28 The children of Dishan __are__ these; Uz, and Aran. +29 These __are__ the dukes __that__ __came__ of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, +30 Duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan: these __are__ the dukes __that__ __came__ of Hori, among their dukes in the land of Seir. +31 ¶ And these __are__ the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. +32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city __was__ Dinhabah. +33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. +34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead. +35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city __was__ Avith. +36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. +37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth __by__ the river reigned in his stead. +38 And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. +39 And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city __was__ Pau; and his wife's name __was__ Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. +40 And these __are__ the names of the dukes __that__ __came__ of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, +41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, +42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, +43 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these __be__ the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he __is__ Esau the father of the Edomites. +:::SET CHAPTER 37 +1 AND Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. +2 These __are__ the generations of Jacob. Joseph, __being__ seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad __was__ with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report. +3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he __was__ the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of __many__ colours. +4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. +5 ¶ And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told __it__ his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. +6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: +7 For, behold, we __were__ binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. +8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. +9 ¶ And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. +10 And he told __it__ to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What __is__ this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? +11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. +12 ¶ And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. +13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed __the__ __flock__ in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here __am__ __I__. +14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. +15 ¶ And a certain man found him, and, behold, __he__ __was__ wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou? +16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed __their__ __flocks__. +17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. +18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. +19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. +20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. +21 And Reuben heard __it__, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him. +22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, __but__ cast him into this pit that __is__ in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again. +23 ¶ And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, __his__ coat of __many__ colours that __was__ on him; +24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit __was__ empty, __there__ __was__ no water in it. +25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry __it__ down to Egypt. +26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit __is__ __it__ if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? +27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he __is__ our brother __and__ our flesh. And his brethren were content. +28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty __pieces__ of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt. +29 ¶ And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph __was__ not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. +30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child __is__ not; and I, whither shall I go? +31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; +32 And they sent the coat of __many__ colours, and they brought __it__ to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it __be__ thy son's coat or no. +33 And he knew it, and said, __It__ __is__ my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. +34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. +35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. +36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, __and__ captain of the guard. +:::SET CHAPTER 38 +1 AND it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name __was__ Hirah. +2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name __was__ Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. +3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. +4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. +5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him. +6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name __was__ Tamar. +7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ slew him. +8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. +9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled __it__ on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. +10 And the thing which he did displeased the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: wherefore he slew him also. +11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren __did__. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. +12 ¶ And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. +13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep. +14 And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which __is__ by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. +15 When Judah saw her, he thought her __to__ __be__ an harlot; because she had covered her face. +16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she __was__ his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? +17 And he said, I will send __thee__ a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give __me__ a pledge, till thou send __it?__ +18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that __is__ in thine hand. And he gave __it__ her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him. +19 And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. +20 And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive __his__ pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. +21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where __is__ the harlot, that __was__ openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this __place__. +22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, __that__ there was no harlot in this __place__. +23 And Judah said, Let her take __it__ to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. +24 ¶ And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she __is__ with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. +25 When she __was__ brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these __are__, __am__ I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose __are__ these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff. +26 And Judah acknowledged __them__, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. +27 ¶ And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins __were__ in her womb. +28 And it came to pass, when she travailed, that __the__ __one__ put out __his__ hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. +29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? __this__ breach __be__ upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez. +30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah. +:::SET CHAPTER 39 +1 AND Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. +3 And his master saw that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ with him, and that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made all that he did to prosper in his hand. +4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all __that__ he had he put into his hand. +5 And it came to pass from the time __that__ he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. +6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was __a__ goodly __person__, and well favoured. +7 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. +8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what __is__ with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; +9 __There__ __is__ none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou __art__ his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? +10 And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, __or__ to be with her. +11 And it came to pass about this time, that __Joseph__ went into the house to do his business; and __there__ __was__ none of the men of the house there within. +12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. +13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, +14 That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice: +15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled, and got him out. +16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home. +17 And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me: +18 And it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled out. +19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled. +20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners __were__ bound: and he was there in the prison. +21 ¶ But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. +22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that __were__ in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer __of__ __it__. +23 The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing __that__ __was__ under his hand; because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with him, and __that__ which he did, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made __it__ to prosper. +:::SET CHAPTER 40 +1 AND it came to pass after these things, __that__ the butler of the king of Egypt and __his__ baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt. +2 And Pharaoh was wroth against two __of__ his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. +3 And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph __was__ bound. +4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward. +5 ¶ And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which __were__ bound in the prison. +6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they __were__ sad. +7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that __were__ with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye __so__ sadly to day? +8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and __there__ __is__ no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, __Do__ not interpretations __belong__ to God? tell me __them__, I pray you. +9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine __was__ before me; +10 And in the vine __were__ three branches: and it __was__ as though it budded, __and__ her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: +11 And Pharaoh's cup __was__ in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. +12 And Joseph said unto him, This __is__ the interpretation of it: The three branches __are__ three days: +13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. +14 But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: +15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. +16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also __was__ in my dream, and, behold, __I__ __had__ three white baskets on my head: +17 And in the uppermost basket __there__ __was__ of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. +18 And Joseph answered and said, This __is__ the interpretation thereof: The three baskets __are__ three days: +19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. +20 ¶ And it came to pass the third day, __which__ __was__ Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. +21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand: +22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them. +23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. +:::SET CHAPTER 41 +1 AND it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. +2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. +3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the __other__ kine upon the brink of the river. +4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. +5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. +6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. +7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, __it__ __was__ a dream. +8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but __there__ __was__ none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. +9 ¶ Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day: +10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, __both__ me and the chief baker: +11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. +12 And __there__ __was__ there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret. +13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged. +14 ¶ Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved __himself__, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. +15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and __there__ __is__ none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, __that__ thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. +16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, __It__ __is__ not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace. +17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: +18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: +19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: +20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: +21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they __were__ still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke. +22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good: +23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, __and__ blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: +24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told __this__ unto the magicians; but __there__ __was__ none that could declare __it__ to me. +25 ¶ And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh __is__ one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he __is__ about to do. +26 The seven good kine __are__ seven years; and the seven good ears __are__ seven years: the dream __is__ one. +27 And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them __are__ seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. +28 This __is__ the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God __is__ about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh. +29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: +30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; +31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it __shall__ __be__ very grievous. +32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; __it__ __is__ because the thing __is__ established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. +33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. +34 Let Pharaoh do __this__, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. +35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. +36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. +37 ¶ And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. +38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find __such__ __a__ __one__ as this __is__, a man in whom the Spirit of God __is?__ +39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, __there__ __is__ none so discreet and wise as thou __art:__ +40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. +41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. +42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; +43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him __ruler__ over all the land of Egypt. +44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I __am__ Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. +45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over __all__ the land of Egypt. +46 ¶ And Joseph __was__ thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. +47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. +48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which __was__ round about every city, laid he up in the same. +49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for __it__ __was__ without number. +50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. +51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, __said__ __he__, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. +52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. +53 ¶ And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. +54 And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. +55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. +56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. +57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy __corn;__ because that the famine was __so__ sore in all lands. +:::SET CHAPTER 42 +1 NOW when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? +2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. +3 ¶ And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. +4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. +5 And the sons of Israel came to buy __corn__ among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan. +6 And Joseph __was__ the governor over the land, __and__ he __it__ __was__ that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him __with__ their faces to the earth. +7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. +8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. +9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye __are__ spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. +10 And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come. +11 We __are__ all one man's sons; we __are__ true __men__, thy servants are no spies. +12 And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. +13 And they said, Thy servants __are__ twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest __is__ this day with our father, and one __is__ not. +14 And Joseph said unto them, That __is__ __it__ that I spake unto you, saying, Ye __are__ spies: +15 Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. +16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether __there__ __be__ __any__ truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye __are__ spies. +17 And he put them all together into ward three days. +18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; __for__ I fear God: +19 If ye __be__ true __men__, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses: +20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. +21 ¶ And they said one to another, We __are__ verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. +22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required. +23 And they knew not that Joseph understood __them;__ for he spake unto them by an interpreter. +24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes. +25 ¶ Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them. +26 And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence. +27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it __was__ in his sack's mouth. +28 And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, __it__ __is__ even in my sack: and their heart failed __them__, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What __is__ this __that__ God hath done unto us? +29 ¶ And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying, +30 The man, __who__ __is__ the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. +31 And we said unto him, We __are__ true __men;__ we are no spies: +32 We __be__ twelve brethren, sons of our father; one __is__ not, and the youngest __is__ this day with our father in the land of Canaan. +33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye __are__ true __men;__ leave one of your brethren __here__ with me, and take __food__ __for__ the famine of your households, and be gone: +34 And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye __are__ no spies, but __that__ ye __are__ true __men:__ __so__ will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land. +35 ¶ And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money __was__ in his sack: and when __both__ they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid. +36 And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved __of__ __my__ __children:__ Joseph __is__ not, and Simeon __is__ not, and ye will take Benjamin __away:__ all these things are against me. +37 And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. +38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. +:::SET CHAPTER 43 +1 AND the famine __was__ sore in the land. +2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. +3 And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother __be__ with you. +4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: +5 But if thou wilt not send __him__, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother __be__ with you. +6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye __so__ ill with me, __as__ to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother? +7 And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, __Is__ your father yet alive? have ye __another__ brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down? +8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, __and__ also our little ones. +9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever: +10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time. +11 And their father Israel said unto them, If __it__ __must__ __be__ so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: +12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry __it__ again in your hand; peradventure it __was__ an oversight: +13 Take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man: +14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved __of__ __my__ __children__, I am bereaved. +15 ¶ And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. +16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring __these__ men home, and slay, and make ready; for __these__ men shall dine with me at noon. +17 And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house. +18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses. +19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house, +20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food: +21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, __every__ man's money __was__ in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand. +22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks. +23 And he said, Peace __be__ to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them. +24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave __them__ water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender. +25 And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there. +26 ¶ And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which __was__ in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth. +27 And he asked them of __their__ welfare, and said, __Is__ your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? __Is__ he yet alive? +28 And they answered, Thy servant our father __is__ in good health, he __is__ yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance. +29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, __Is__ this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God be gracious unto thee, my son. +30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought __where__ to weep; and he entered into __his__ chamber, and wept there. +31 And he washed his face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread. +32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that __is__ an abomination unto the Egyptians. +33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another. +34 And he took __and__ __sent__ messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him. +:::SET CHAPTER 44 +1 AND he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks __with__ food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. +2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. +3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. +4 __And__ when they were gone out of the city, __and__ not __yet__ far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? +5 __Is__ not this __it__ in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing. +6 ¶ And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words. +7 And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing: +8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? +9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. +10 And he said, Now also __let__ it __be__ according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless. +11 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. +12 And he searched, __and__ began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. +13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. +14 ¶ And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he __was__ yet there: and they fell before him on the ground. +15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed __is__ this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? +16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we __are__ my lord's servants, both we, and __he__ also with whom the cup is found. +17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: __but__ the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father. +18 ¶ Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou __art__ even as Pharaoh. +19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? +20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. +21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. +22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for __if__ he should leave his father, __his__ __father__ would die. +23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. +24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. +25 And our father said, Go again, __and__ buy us a little food. +26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother __be__ with us. +27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two __sons:__ +28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since: +29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. +30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad __be__ not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; +31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad __is__ not __with__ __us__, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. +32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever. +33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. +34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad __be__ not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father. +:::SET CHAPTER 45 +1 THEN Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. +2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. +3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I __am__ Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. +4 And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I __am__ Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. +5 Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. +6 For these two years __hath__ the famine __been__ in the land: and yet __there__ __are__ five years, in the which __there__ __shall__ neither __be__ earing nor harvest. +7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. +8 So now __it__ __was__ not you __that__ sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. +9 Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: +10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: +11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet __there__ __are__ five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. +12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that __it__ __is__ my mouth that speaketh unto you. +13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. +14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. +15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him. +16 ¶ And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. +17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; +18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. +19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. +20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt __is__ yours. +21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. +22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred __pieces__ of silver, and five changes of raiment. +23 And to his father he sent after this __manner;__ ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way. +24 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way. +25 ¶ And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, +26 And told him, saying, Joseph __is__ yet alive, and he __is__ governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. +27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: +28 And Israel said, __It__ __is__ enough; Joseph my son __is__ yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. +:::SET CHAPTER 46 +1 AND Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. +2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here __am__ I. +3 And he said, I __am__ God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: +4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up __again:__ and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. +5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. +6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: +7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. +8 ¶ And these __are__ the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. +9 And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. +10 ¶ And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. +11 ¶ And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. +12 ¶ And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul. +13 ¶ And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron. +14 ¶ And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. +15 These __be__ the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters __were__ thirty and three. +16 ¶ And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. +17 ¶ And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel. +18 These __are__ the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, __even__ sixteen souls. +19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin. +20 ¶ And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him. +21 ¶ And the sons of Benjamin __were__ Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. +22 These __are__ the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls __were__ fourteen. +23 ¶ And the sons of Dan; Hushim. +24 ¶ And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. +25 These __are__ the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls __were__ seven. +26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls __were__ threescore and six; +27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, __were__ two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, __were__ threescore and ten. +28 ¶ And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. +29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. +30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou __art__ yet alive. +31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which __were__ in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; +32 And the men __are__ shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. +33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What __is__ your occupation? +34 That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, __and__ also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd __is__ an abomination unto the Egyptians. +:::SET CHAPTER 47 +1 THEN Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they __are__ in the land of Goshen. +2 And he took some of his brethren, __even__ five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. +3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What __is__ your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants __are__ shepherds, both we, __and__ also our fathers. +4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine __is__ sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. +5 And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: +6 The land of Egypt __is__ before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest __any__ men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. +7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. +8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old __art__ thou? +9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage __are__ an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. +10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. +11 ¶ And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. +12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to __their__ families. +13 ¶ And __there__ __was__ no bread in all the land; for the famine __was__ very sore, so that the land of Egypt and __all__ the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. +14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. +15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth. +16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. +17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread __in__ __exchange__ for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year. +18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide __it__ from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: +19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give __us__ seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. +20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. +21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from __one__ end of the borders of Egypt even to the __other__ end thereof. +22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion __assigned__ __them__ of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. +23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, __here__ __is__ seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. +24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth __part__ unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. +25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. +26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, __that__ Pharaoh should have the fifth __part;__ except the land of the priests only, __which__ became not Pharaoh's. +27 ¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly. +28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. +29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: +30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. +31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. +:::SET CHAPTER 48 +1 AND it came to pass after these things, that __one__ told Joseph, Behold, thy father __is__ sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. +2 And __one__ told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. +3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, +4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee __for__ an everlasting possession. +5 ¶ And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, __are__ mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. +6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, __and__ shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. +7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet __there__ __was__ but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same __is__ Beth-lehem. +8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who __are__ these? +9 And Joseph said unto his father, They __are__ my sons, whom God hath given me in this __place__. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. +10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, __so__ __that__ he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. +11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. +12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. +13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought __them__ near unto him. +14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid __it__ upon Ephraim's head, who __was__ the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh __was__ the firstborn. +15 ¶ And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, +16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. +17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. +18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this __is__ the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. +19 And his father refused, and said, I know __it__, my son, I know __it:__ he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. +20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. +21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. +22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. +:::SET CHAPTER 49 +1 AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you __that__ which shall befall you in the last days. +2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. +3 ¶ Reuben, thou __art__ my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: +4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou __it:__ he went up to my couch. +5 ¶ Simeon and Levi __are__ brethren; instruments of cruelty __are__ __in__ their habitations. +6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. +7 Cursed __be__ their anger, for __it__ __was__ fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. +8 ¶ Judah, thou __art__ __he__ whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand __shall__ __be__ in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. +9 Judah __is__ a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? +10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him __shall__ the gathering of the people __be__. +11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: +12 His eyes __shall__ __be__ red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. +13 ¶ Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he __shall__ __be__ for an haven of ships; and his border __shall__ __be__ unto Zidon. +14 ¶ Issachar __is__ a strong ass couching down between two burdens: +15 And he saw that rest __was__ good, and the land that __it__ __was__ pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. +16 ¶ Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. +17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. +18 I have waited for thy salvation, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 ¶ Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. +20 ¶ Out of Asher his bread __shall__ __be__ fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. +21 ¶ Naphtali __is__ a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. +22 ¶ Joseph __is__ a fruitful bough, __even__ a fruitful bough by a well; __whose__ branches run over the wall: +23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot __at__ __him__, and hated him: +24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty __God__ of Jacob; (from thence __is__ the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) +25 __Even__ by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: +26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren. +27 ¶ Benjamin shall ravin __as__ a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. +28 ¶ All these __are__ the twelve tribes of Israel: and this __is__ __it__ that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. +29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that __is__ in the field of Ephron the Hittite, +30 In the cave that __is__ in the field of Machpelah, which __is__ before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. +31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. +32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that __is__ therein __was__ from the children of Heth. +33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. +:::SET CHAPTER 50 +1 AND Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. +2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. +3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. +4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, +5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. +6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. +7 ¶ And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, +8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. +9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. +10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which __is__ beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. +11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This __is__ a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which __is__ beyond Jordan. +12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: +13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. +14 ¶ And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. +15 ¶ And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. +16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, +17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him. +18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we __be__ thy servants. +19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for __am__ I in the place of God? +20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; __but__ God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as __it__ __is__ this day, to save much people alive. +21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them. +22 ¶ And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years. +23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third __generation:__ the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. +24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. +25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. +26 So Joseph died, __being__ an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. +:::SET BOOK Exodus +:::SET TITLE The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW these __are__ the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. +2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, +3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, +4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. +5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt __already__. +6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. +7 ¶ And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them. +8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. +9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel __are__ more and mightier than we: +10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and __so__ get them up out of the land. +11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. +12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. +13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: +14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, __was__ with rigour. +15 ¶ And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one __was__ Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: +16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see __them__ upon the stools; if it __be__ a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it __be__ a daughter, then she shall live. +17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. +18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? +19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women __are__ not as the Egyptian women; for they __are__ lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. +20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. +21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. +22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND there went a man of the house of Levi, and took __to__ __wife__ a daughter of Levi. +2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he __was__ __a__ goodly __child__, she hid him three months. +3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid __it__ in the flags by the river's brink. +4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. +5 ¶ And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash __herself__ at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. +6 And when she had opened __it__, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This __is__ __one__ of the Hebrews' children. +7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? +8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. +9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give __thee__ thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. +10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water. +11 ¶ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. +12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that __there__ __was__ no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. +13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? +14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. +15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. +16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew __water__, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. +17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. +18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How __is__ __it__ __that__ ye are come so soon to day? +19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew __water__ enough for us, and watered the flock. +20 And he said unto his daughters, And where __is__ he? why __is__ it __that__ ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread. +21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. +22 And she bare __him__ a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. +23 ¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. +24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. +25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto __them__. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 NOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, __even__ to Horeb. +2 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush __was__ not consumed. +3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. +4 And when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here __am__ I. +5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest __is__ holy ground. +6 Moreover he said, I __am__ the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. +7 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which __are__ in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; +8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. +9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. +10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. +11 ¶ And Moses said unto God, Who __am__ I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? +12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this __shall__ __be__ a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. +13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, __when__ I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What __is__ his name? what shall I say unto them? +14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. +15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this __is__ my name for ever, and this __is__ my memorial unto all generations. +16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and __seen__ that which is done to you in Egypt: +17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. +18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +19 ¶ And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. +20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go. +21 And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty: +22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put __them__ upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not appeared unto thee. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, What __is__ that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. +3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: +5 That they may believe that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. +6 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand __was__ leprous as snow. +7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his __other__ flesh. +8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. +9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour __it__ upon the dry __land:__ and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry __land__. +10 ¶ And Moses said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O my Lord, I __am__ not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I __am__ slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. +13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand __of__ __him__ __whom__ thou wilt send. +14 And the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against Moses, and he said, __Is__ not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. +15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. +16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, __even__ he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God. +17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs. +18 ¶ And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which __are__ in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. +19 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life. +20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. +22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Israel __is__ my son, __even__ my firstborn: +23 And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, __even__ thy firstborn. +24 ¶ And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ met him, and sought to kill him. +25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast __it__ at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband __art__ thou to me. +26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband __thou__ __art__, because of the circumcision. +27 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him. +28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him. +29 ¶ And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: +30 And Aaron spake all the words which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. +31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. +2 And Pharaoh said, Who __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, neither will I let Israel go. +3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. +4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. +5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now __are__ many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. +6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, +7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. +8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish __ought__ thereof: for they __be__ idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go __and__ sacrifice to our God. +9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words. +10 ¶ And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. +11 Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. +12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. +13 And the taskmasters hasted __them__, saying, Fulfil your works, __your__ daily tasks, as when there was straw. +14 And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, __and__ demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore? +15 ¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? +16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants __are__ beaten; but the fault __is__ in thine own people. +17 But he said, Ye __are__ idle, __ye__ __are__ idle: therefore ye say, Let us go __and__ do sacrifice to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 Go therefore now, __and__ work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. +19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see __that__ they __were__ in evil __case__, after it was said, Ye shall not minish __ought__ from your bricks of your daily task. +20 ¶ And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: +21 And they said unto them, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us. +22 And Moses returned unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou __so__ evil entreated this people? why __is__ it __that__ thou hast sent me? +23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 THEN the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. +2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by __the__ __name__ __of__ God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. +4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. +5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. +6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: +7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. +8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 ¶ And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. +10 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. +12 And Moses spake before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who __am__ of uncircumcised lips? +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. +14 ¶ These __be__ the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these __be__ the families of Reuben. +15 And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these __are__ the families of Simeon. +16 ¶ And these __are__ the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi __were__ an hundred thirty and seven years. +17 The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families. +18 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath __were__ an hundred thirty and three years. +19 And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these __are__ the families of Levi according to their generations. +20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram __were__ an hundred and thirty and seven years. +21 ¶ And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. +22 And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri. +23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. +24 And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these __are__ the families of the Korhites. +25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him __one__ of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these __are__ the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families. +26 These __are__ that Aaron and Moses, to whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies. +27 These __are__ they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these __are__ that Moses and Aaron. +28 ¶ And it came to pass on the day __when__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt, +29 That the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee. +30 And Moses said before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I __am__ of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me? +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. +2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. +3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. +4 But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, __and__ my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. +5 And the Egyptians shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. +6 And Moses and Aaron did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded them, so did they. +7 And Moses __was__ fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh. +8 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, +9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast __it__ before Pharaoh, __and__ it shall become a serpent. +10 ¶ And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. +11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. +12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. +13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said. +14 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart __is__ hardened, he refuseth to let the people go. +15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand. +16 And thou shalt say unto him, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear. +17 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, In this thou shalt know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: behold, I will smite with the rod that __is__ in mine hand upon the waters which __are__ in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. +18 And the fish that __is__ in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river. +19 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and __that__ there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in __vessels__ __of__ wood, and in __vessels__ __of__ stone. +20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that __were__ in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that __were__ in the river were turned to blood. +21 And the fish that __was__ in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. +22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said. +23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also. +24 And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river. +25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had smitten the river. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Let my people go, that they may serve me. +2 And if thou refuse to let __them__ go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: +3 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs: +4 And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants. +5 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. +6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. +7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. +8 ¶ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, __that__ they may remain in the river only? +10 And he said, To morrow. And he said, __Be__ __it__ according to thy word: that thou mayest know that __there__ __is__ none like unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only. +12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. +14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank. +15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said. +16 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. +17 And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. +18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast. +19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This __is__ the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said. +20 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Let my people go, that they may serve me. +21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms __of__ __flies__ upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms __of__ __flies__, and also the ground whereon they __are__. +22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms __of__ __flies__ shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the midst of the earth. +23 And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be. +24 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did so; and there came a grievous swarm __of__ __flies__ into the house of Pharaoh, and __into__ his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm __of__ __flies__. +25 ¶ And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. +26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? +27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, as he shall command us. +28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me. +29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that the swarms __of__ __flies__ may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms __of__ __flies__ from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one. +32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 THEN the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. +2 For if thou refuse to let __them__ go, and wilt hold them still, +3 Behold, the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is upon thy cattle which __is__ in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: __there__ __shall__ __be__ a very grievous murrain. +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all __that__ __is__ the children's of Israel. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appointed a set time, saying, To morrow the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall do this thing in the land. +6 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. +7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go. +8 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. +9 And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth __with__ blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. +10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth __with__ blains upon man, and upon beast. +11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. +12 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had spoken unto Moses. +13 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. +14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that __there__ __is__ none like me in all the earth. +15 For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. +16 And in very deed for this __cause__ have I raised thee up, for to shew __in__ thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. +17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? +18 Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. +19 Send therefore now, __and__ gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; __for__ __upon__ every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. +20 He that feared the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: +21 And he that regarded not the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ left his servants and his cattle in the field. +22 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. +23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rained hail upon the land of Egypt. +24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. +25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that __was__ in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field. +26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel __were__, was there no hail. +27 ¶ And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ righteous, and I and my people __are__ wicked. +28 Intreat the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ (for __it__ __is__ enough) that there be no __more__ mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer. +29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; __and__ the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s. +30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God. +31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley __was__ in the ear, and the flax __was__ bolled. +32 But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they __were__ not grown up. +33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth. +34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. +35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had spoken by Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: +2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. +4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: +5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: +6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh. +7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? +8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God: __but__ who __are__ they that shall go? +9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we __must__ __hold__ a feast unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 And he said unto them, Let the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look __to__ __it;__ for evil __is__ before you. +11 Not so: go now ye __that__ __are__ men, and serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. +12 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, __even__ all that the hail hath left. +13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all __that__ night; __and__ when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. +14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous __were__ __they;__ before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. +15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt. +16 ¶ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and against you. +17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, that he may take away from me this death only. +18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. +20 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go. +21 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness __which__ may be felt. +22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: +23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. +24 ¶ And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you. +25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God; and we know not with what we must serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, until we come thither. +27 ¶ But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go. +28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in __that__ day thou seest my face thou shalt die. +29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague __more__ upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let __you__ go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether. +2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold. +3 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses __was__ very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people. +4 And Moses said, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: +5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that __is__ behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. +6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more. +7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. +8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger. +9 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. +10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, +2 This month __shall__ __be__ unto you the beginning of months: it __shall__ __be__ the first month of the year to you. +3 ¶ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth __day__ of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of __their__ fathers, a lamb for an house: +4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take __it__ according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. +5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take __it__ out from the sheep, or from the goats: +6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. +7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike __it__ on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. +8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; __and__ with bitter __herbs__ they shall eat it. +9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast __with__ fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. +10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. +11 ¶ And thus shall ye eat it; __with__ your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s passover. +12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye __are:__ and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy __you__, when I smite the land of Egypt. +14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. +15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. +16 And in the first day __there__ __shall__ __be__ an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save __that__ which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. +17 And ye shall observe __the__ __feast__ __of__ unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. +18 ¶ In the first __month__, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even. +19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. +20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. +21 ¶ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. +22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip __it__ in the blood that __is__ in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that __is__ in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. +23 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite __you__. +24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. +25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. +26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? +27 That ye shall say, It __is__ the sacrifice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. +28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. +29 ¶ And it came to pass, that at midnight the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that __was__ in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. +30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for __there__ __was__ not a house where __there__ __was__ not one dead. +31 ¶ And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, __and__ get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as ye have said. +32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. +33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We __be__ all dead __men__. +34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. +35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: +36 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them __such__ __things__ __as__ __they__ __required__. And they spoiled the Egyptians. +37 ¶ And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot __that__ __were__ men, beside children. +38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, __even__ very much cattle. +39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. +40 ¶ Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, __was__ four hundred and thirty years. +41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went out from the land of Egypt. +42 It __is__ a night to be much observed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this __is__ that night of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations. +43 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses and Aaron, This __is__ the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: +44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. +45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. +46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. +47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. +48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. +49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. +50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. +51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, __both__ of man and of beast: it __is__ mine. +3 ¶ And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought you out from this __place:__ there shall no leavened bread be eaten. +4 This day came ye out in the month Abib. +5 ¶ And it shall be when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month. +6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day __shall__ __be__ a feast to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters. +8 ¶ And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, __This__ __is__ __done__ because of that __which__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. +9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought thee out of Egypt. +10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year. +11 ¶ And it shall be when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, +12 That thou shalt set apart unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males __shall__ __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s. +13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem. +14 ¶ And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What __is__ this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: +15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem. +16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought us forth out of Egypt. +17 ¶ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not __through__ the way of the land of the Philistines, although that __was__ near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: +18 But God led the people about, __through__ the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. +19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you. +20 ¶ And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: +22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, __from__ before the people. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea. +3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They __are__ entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. +4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And they did so. +5 ¶ And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? +6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: +7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. +8 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand. +9 But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses __and__ chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon. +10 ¶ And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 And they said unto Moses, Because __there__ __were__ no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt? +12 __Is__ not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For __it__ __had__ __been__ better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. +13 ¶ And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. +14 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. +15 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: +16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry __ground__ through the midst of the sea. +17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. +18 And the Egyptians shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. +19 ¶ And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: +20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness __to__ __them__, but it gave light by night __to__ __these:__ so that the one came not near the other all the night. +21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ caused the sea to go __back__ by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry __land__, and the waters were divided. +22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry __ground:__ and the waters __were__ a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. +23 ¶ And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, __even__ all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. +24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, +25 And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ fighteth for them against the Egyptians. +26 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. +27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. +28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, __and__ all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. +29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry __land__ in the midst of the sea; and the waters __were__ a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. +30 Thus the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. +31 And Israel saw that great work which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and believed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his servant Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 THEN sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he __is__ my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ a man of war: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ his name. +4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. +5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. +6 Thy right hand, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. +7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, __which__ consumed them as stubble. +8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, __and__ the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. +9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. +10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. +11 Who __is__ like unto thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, among the gods? who __is__ like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful __in__ praises, doing wonders? +12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. +13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people __which__ thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided __them__ in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. +14 The people shall hear, __and__ be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. +15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. +16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be __as__ still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, till the people pass over, __which__ thou hast purchased. +17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, __in__ the place, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __which__ thou hast made for thee to dwell in, __in__ the Sanctuary, O Lord, __which__ thy hands have established. +18 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall reign for ever and ever. +19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry __land__ in the midst of the sea. +20 ¶ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. +21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. +22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. +23 ¶ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they __were__ bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. +24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? +25 And he cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shewed him a tree, __which__ when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, +26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that healeth thee. +27 ¶ And they came to Elim, where __were__ twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 AND they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which __is__ between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. +2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: +3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, __and__ when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. +4 ¶ Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. +5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare __that__ which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. +6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath brought you out from the land of Egypt: +7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for that he heareth your murmurings against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and what __are__ we, that ye murmur against us? +8 And Moses said, __This__ __shall__ __be__, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what __are__ we? your murmurings __are__ not against us, but against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 ¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he hath heard your murmurings. +10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared in the cloud. +11 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. +14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness __there__ __lay__ a small round thing, __as__ small as the hoar frost on the ground. +15 And when the children of Israel saw __it__, they said one to another, It __is__ manna: for they wist not what it __was__. And Moses said unto them, This __is__ the bread which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given you to eat. +16 ¶ This __is__ the thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, __according__ __to__ the number of your persons; take ye every man for __them__ which __are__ in his tents. +17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. +18 And when they did mete __it__ with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. +19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. +20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them. +21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. +22 ¶ And it came to pass, __that__ on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one __man:__ and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. +23 And he said unto them, This __is__ __that__ which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said, To morrow __is__ the rest of the holy sabbath unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: bake __that__ which ye will bake __to__ __day__, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. +24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. +25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day __is__ a sabbath unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: to day ye shall not find it in the field. +26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, __which__ __is__ the sabbath, in it there shall be none. +27 ¶ And it came to pass, __that__ there went out __some__ of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. +28 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? +29 See, for that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. +30 So the people rested on the seventh day. +31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it __was__ like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it __was__ like wafers __made__ with honey. +32 ¶ And Moses said, This __is__ the thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. +33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to be kept for your generations. +34 As the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. +35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. +36 Now an omer __is__ the tenth __part__ of an ephah. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and pitched in Rephidim: and __there__ __was__ no water for the people to drink. +2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore __is__ this __that__ thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? +4 And Moses cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. +6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. +7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Is the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ among us, or not? +8 ¶ Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. +9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. +10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. +11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. +12 But Moses' hands __were__ heavy; and they took a stone, and put __it__ under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. +13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. +14 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Write this __for__ a memorial in a book, and rehearse __it__ in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. +15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi: +16 For he said, Because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sworn __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __will__ __have__ war with Amalek from generation to generation. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 WHEN Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, __and__ that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had brought Israel out of Egypt; +2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, +3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one __was__ Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: +4 And the name of the other __was__ Eliezer; for the God of my father, __said__ __he__, __was__ mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: +5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: +6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. +7 ¶ And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of __their__ welfare; and they came into the tent. +8 And Moses told his father in law all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, __and__ all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and __how__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered them. +9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. +10 And Jethro said, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. +11 Now I know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly __he__ __was__ above them. +12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God. +13 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening. +14 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What __is__ this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? +15 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God: +16 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make __them__ know the statutes of God, and his laws. +17 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest __is__ not good. +18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that __is__ with thee: for this thing __is__ too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. +19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: +20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. +21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place __such__ over them, __to__ __be__ rulers of thousands, __and__ rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: +22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, __that__ every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear __the__ __burden__ with thee. +23 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee __so__, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. +24 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. +25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. +26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. +27 ¶ And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 IN the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they __into__ the wilderness of Sinai. +2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come __to__ the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. +3 And Moses went up unto God, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; +4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and __how__ I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. +5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth __is__ mine: +6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These __are__ the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. +7 ¶ And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded him. +8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, +11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. +12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, __that__ __ye__ go __not__ up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: +13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether __it__ __be__ beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. +14 ¶ And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. +15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at __your__ wives. +16 ¶ And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that __was__ in the camp trembled. +17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. +18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. +19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ called Moses __up__ to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to gaze, and many of them perish. +22 And let the priests also, which come near to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, sanctify themselves, lest the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ break forth upon them. +23 And Moses said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. +24 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, lest he break forth upon them. +25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND God spake all these words, saying, +2 I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. +3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. +4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness __of__ __any__ __thing__ that __is__ in heaven above, or that __is__ in the earth beneath, or that __is__ in the water under the earth: +5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __am__ a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth __generation__ of them that hate me; +6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. +7 Thou shalt not take the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in vain; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. +8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. +9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: +10 But the seventh day __is__ the sabbath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: __in__ __it__ thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that __is__ within thy gates: +11 For __in__ six days the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them __is__, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. +12 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee. +13 Thou shalt not kill. +14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. +15 Thou shalt not steal. +16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. +17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that __is__ thy neighbour's. +18 ¶ And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw __it__, they removed, and stood afar off. +19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. +20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. +21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God __was__. +22 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. +23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. +24 ¶ An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. +25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. +26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 NOW these __are__ the judgments which thou shalt set before them. +2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. +3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. +4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. +5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: +6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. +7 ¶ And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. +8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. +9 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. +10 If he take him another __wife;__ her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. +11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money. +12 ¶ He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. +13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver __him__ into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. +14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. +15 ¶ And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. +16 ¶ And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. +17 ¶ And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. +18 ¶ And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with __his__ fist, and he die not, but keepeth __his__ bed: +19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote __him__ be quit: only he shall pay __for__ the loss of his time, and shall cause __him__ to be thoroughly healed. +20 ¶ And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. +21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he __is__ his money. +22 ¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart __from__ __her__, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges __determine__. +23 And if __any__ mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, +24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, +25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. +26 ¶ And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. +27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. +28 ¶ If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox __shall__ __be__ quit. +29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. +30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. +31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. +32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. +33 ¶ And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; +34 The owner of the pit shall make __it__ good, __and__ give money unto the owner of them; and the dead __beast__ shall be his. +35 ¶ And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead __ox__ also they shall divide. +36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 IF a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. +2 ¶ If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, __there__ __shall__ no blood __be__ __shed__ for him. +3 If the sun be risen upon him, __there__ __shall__ __be__ blood __shed__ for him; __for__ he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. +4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. +5 ¶ If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. +6 ¶ If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed __therewith;__ he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. +7 ¶ If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double. +8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, __to__ __see__ whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. +9 For all manner of trespass, __whether__ __it__ __be__ for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, __or__ for any manner of lost thing, which __another__ challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; __and__ whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. +10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing __it:__ +11 __Then__ shall an oath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept __thereof__, and he shall not make __it__ good. +12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. +13 If it be torn in pieces, __then__ let him bring it __for__ witness, __and__ he shall not make good that which was torn. +14 ¶ And if a man borrow __ought__ of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof __being__ not with it, he shall surely make __it__ good. +15 __But__ if the owner thereof __be__ with it, he shall not make __it__ good: if it __be__ an hired __thing__, it came for his hire. +16 ¶ And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. +17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. +18 ¶ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. +19 ¶ Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. +20 ¶ He that sacrificeth unto __any__ god, save unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ only, he shall be utterly destroyed. +21 ¶ Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. +22 ¶ Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. +23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; +24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. +25 ¶ If thou lend money to __any__ __of__ my people __that__ __is__ poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. +26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: +27 For that __is__ his covering only, it __is__ his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I __am__ gracious. +28 ¶ Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. +29 ¶ Thou shalt not delay __to__ __offer__ the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. +30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, __and__ with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. +31 ¶ And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat __any__ flesh __that__ __is__ torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 THOU shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. +2 ¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to __do__ evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest __judgment:__ +3 ¶ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause. +4 ¶ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. +5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. +6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. +7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. +8 ¶ And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. +9 ¶ Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. +10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: +11 But the seventh __year__ thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, __and__ with thy oliveyard. +12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. +13 And in all __things__ that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. +14 ¶ Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. +15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) +16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, __which__ __is__ in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. +17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. +19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. +20 ¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. +21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name __is__ in him. +22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. +23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, __and__ the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. +24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. +25 And ye shall serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. +26 ¶ There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. +27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. +28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. +29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. +30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. +31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. +32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. +33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AND he said unto Moses, Come up unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. +2 And Moses alone shall come near the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. +3 ¶ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said will we do. +4 And Moses wrote all the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. +5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put __it__ in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. +7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said will we do, and be obedient. +8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled __it__ on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath made with you concerning all these words. +9 ¶ Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: +10 And they saw the God of Israel: and __there__ __was__ under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in __his__ clearness. +11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink. +12 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. +13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God. +14 And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur __are__ with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. +15 And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount. +16 And the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. +17 And the sight of the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. +18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. +3 And this __is__ the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass, +4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' __hair__, +5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood, +6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, +7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate. +8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. +9 According to all that I shew thee, __after__ the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make __it__. +10 ¶ And they shall make an ark __of__ shittim wood: two cubits and a half __shall__ __be__ the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. +11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. +12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put __them__ in the four corners thereof; and two rings __shall__ __be__ in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it. +13 And thou shalt make staves __of__ shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. +14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. +15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it. +16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. +17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat __of__ pure gold: two cubits and a half __shall__ __be__ the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. +18 And thou shalt make two cherubims __of__ gold, __of__ beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. +19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: __even__ of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. +20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth __their__ wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces __shall__ __look__ one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. +21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. +22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which __are__ upon the ark of the testimony, of all __things__ which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. +23 ¶ Thou shalt also make a table __of__ shittim wood: two cubits __shall__ __be__ the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. +24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. +25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about. +26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that __are__ on the four feet thereof. +27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table. +28 And thou shalt make the staves __of__ shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. +29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: __of__ pure gold shalt thou make them. +30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway. +31 ¶ And thou shalt make a candlestick __of__ pure gold: __of__ beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same. +32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side: +33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, __with__ a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, __with__ a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick. +34 And in the candlestick __shall__ __be__ four bowls made like unto almonds, __with__ their knops and their flowers. +35 And __there__ __shall__ __be__ a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick. +36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it __shall__ __be__ one beaten work __of__ pure gold. +37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it. +38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, __shall__ __be__ __of__ pure gold. +39 __Of__ a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. +40 And look that thou make __them__ after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 MOREOVER thou shalt make the tabernacle __with__ ten curtains __of__ fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: __with__ cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them. +2 The length of one curtain __shall__ __be__ eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure. +3 The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and __other__ five curtains __shall__ __be__ coupled one to another. +4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of __another__ curtain, in the coupling of the second. +5 Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that __is__ in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another. +6 And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle. +7 ¶ And thou shalt make curtains __of__ goats' __hair__ to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make. +8 The length of one curtain __shall__ __be__ thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains __shall__ __be__ __all__ of one measure. +9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle. +10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain __that__ __is__ outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. +11 And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. +12 And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. +13 And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. +14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent __of__ rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above __of__ badgers' skins. +15 ¶ And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle __of__ shittim wood standing up. +16 Ten cubits __shall__ __be__ the length of a board, and a cubit and a half __shall__ __be__ the breadth of one board. +17 Two tenons __shall__ __there__ __be__ in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. +18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. +19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. +20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side __there__ __shall__ __be__ twenty boards: +21 And their forty sockets __of__ silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. +22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. +23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. +24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. +25 And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets __of__ silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. +26 ¶ And thou shalt make bars __of__ shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, +27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward. +28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end. +29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings __of__ gold __for__ places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold. +30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount. +31 ¶ And thou shalt make a vail __of__ blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: +32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim __wood__ overlaid with gold: their hooks __shall__ __be__ __of__ gold, upon the four sockets of silver. +33 ¶ And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy __place__ and the most holy. +34 And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy __place__. +35 And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side. +36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, __of__ blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework. +37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars __of__ shittim __wood__, and overlay them with gold, __and__ their hooks __shall__ __be__ __of__ gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 AND thou shalt make an altar __of__ shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof __shall__ __be__ three cubits. +2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. +3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make __of__ brass. +4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network __of__ brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof. +5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. +6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves __of__ shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. +7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it. +8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make __it__. +9 ¶ And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward __there__ __shall__ __be__ hangings for the court __of__ fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: +10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets __shall__ __be__ __of__ brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets __shall__ __be__ __of__ silver. +11 And likewise for the north side in length __there__ __shall__ __be__ hangings of an hundred __cubits__ long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets __of__ brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets __of__ silver. +12 ¶ And __for__ the breadth of the court on the west side __shall__ __be__ hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. +13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward __shall__ __be__ fifty cubits. +14 The hangings of one side __of__ __the__ __gate__ __shall__ __be__ fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. +15 And on the other side __shall__ __be__ hangings fifteen __cubits:__ their pillars three, and their sockets three. +16 ¶ And for the gate of the court __shall__ __be__ an hanging of twenty cubits, __of__ blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: __and__ their pillars __shall__ __be__ four, and their sockets four. +17 All the pillars round about the court __shall__ __be__ filleted with silver; their hooks __shall__ __be__ __of__ silver, and their sockets __of__ brass. +18 ¶ The length of the court __shall__ __be__ an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits __of__ fine twined linen, and their sockets __of__ brass. +19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, __shall__ __be__ __of__ brass. +20 ¶ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always. +21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which __is__ before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __it__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 AND take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, __even__ Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. +2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty. +3 And thou shalt speak unto all __that__ __are__ wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. +4 And these __are__ the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. +5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen. +6 ¶ And they shall make the ephod __of__ gold, __of__ blue, and __of__ purple, __of__ scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. +7 It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and __so__ it shall be joined together. +8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which __is__ upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; __even__ __of__ gold, __of__ blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. +9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: +10 Six of their names on one stone, and __the__ __other__ six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth. +11 With the work of an engraver in stone, __like__ the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold. +12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod __for__ stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ upon his two shoulders for a memorial. +13 ¶ And thou shalt make ouches __of__ gold; +14 And two chains __of__ pure gold at the ends; __of__ wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches. +15 ¶ And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; __of__ gold, __of__ blue, and __of__ purple, and __of__ scarlet, and __of__ fine twined linen, shalt thou make it. +16 Foursquare it shall be __being__ doubled; a span __shall__ __be__ the length thereof, and a span __shall__ __be__ the breadth thereof. +17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, __even__ four rows of stones: __the__ __first__ row __shall__ __be__ a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: __this__ __shall__ __be__ the first row. +18 And the second row __shall__ __be__ an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. +19 And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. +20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings. +21 And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, __like__ the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes. +22 ¶ And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends __of__ wreathen work __of__ pure gold. +23 And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. +24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen __chains__ of gold in the two rings __which__ __are__ on the ends of the breastplate. +25 And __the__ __other__ two ends of the two wreathen __chains__ thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put __them__ on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it. +26 ¶ And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which __is__ in the side of the ephod inward. +27 And two __other__ rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the __other__ coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod. +28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that __it__ may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. +29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy __place__, for a memorial before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ continually. +30 ¶ And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ continually. +31 ¶ And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all __of__ blue. +32 And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent. +33 ¶ And __beneath__ upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates __of__ blue, and __of__ purple, and __of__ scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: +34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. +35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy __place__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and when he cometh out, that he die not. +36 ¶ And thou shalt make a plate __of__ pure gold, and grave upon it, __like__ the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. +37 And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. +38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +39 ¶ And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre __of__ fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle __of__ needlework. +40 ¶ And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty. +41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office. +42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach: +43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy __place;__ that they bear not iniquity, and die: __it__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 AND this __is__ the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest's office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, +2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: __of__ wheaten flour shalt thou make them. +3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. +4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water. +5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod: +6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. +7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour __it__ upon his head, and anoint him. +8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them. +9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. +10 And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock. +11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __by__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put __it__ upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. +13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul __that__ __is__ above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that __is__ upon them, and burn __them__ upon the altar. +14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it __is__ a sin offering. +15 ¶ Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. +16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle __it__ round about upon the altar. +17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put __them__ unto his pieces, and unto his head. +18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it __is__ a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it __is__ a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 ¶ And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. +20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put __it__ upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. +21 And thou shalt take of the blood that __is__ upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle __it__ upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. +22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul __above__ the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that __is__ upon them, and the right shoulder; for it __is__ a ram of consecration: +23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that __is__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +24 And thou shalt put all in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +25 And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn __them__ upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it __is__ an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and it shall be thy part. +27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, __even__ of __that__ which __is__ for Aaron, and of __that__ which is for his sons: +28 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: for it __is__ an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, __even__ their heave offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +29 ¶ And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them. +30 __And__ that son that is priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy __place__. +31 ¶ And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place. +32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that __is__ in the basket, __by__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate __and__ to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat __thereof__, because they __are__ holy. +34 And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it __is__ holy. +35 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all __things__ which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou consecrate them. +36 And thou shalt offer every day a bullock __for__ a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. +37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy. +38 ¶ Now this __is__ __that__ which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually. +39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: +40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine __for__ a drink offering. +41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +42 __This__ __shall__ __be__ a continual burnt offering throughout your generations __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. +43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and __the__ __tabernacle__ shall be sanctified by my glory. +44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office. +45 ¶ And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. +46 And they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 AND thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: __of__ shittim wood shalt thou make it. +2 A cubit __shall__ __be__ the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits __shall__ __be__ the height thereof: the horns thereof __shall__ __be__ of the same. +3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. +4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make __it;__ and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal. +5 And thou shalt make the staves __of__ shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. +6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that __is__ by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that __is__ over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. +7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. +8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ throughout your generations. +9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon. +10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it __is__ most holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when __thou__ numberest them. +13 This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel __is__ twenty gerahs:) an half shekel __shall__ __be__ the offering of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when __they__ give an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to make an atonement for your souls. +16 And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to make an atonement for your souls. +17 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +18 Thou shalt also make a laver __of__ brass, and his foot __also__ __of__ brass, to wash __withal:__ and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. +19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: +20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, __even__ to him and to his seed throughout their generations. +22 ¶ Moreover the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred __shekels__, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, __even__ two hundred and fifty __shekels__, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty __shekels__, +24 And of cassia five hundred __shekels__, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: +25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil. +26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, +27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, +28 And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. +29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. +30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that __they__ may minister unto me in the priest's office. +31 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations. +32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make __any__ __other__ like it, after the composition of it: it __is__ holy, __and__ it shall be holy unto you. +33 Whosoever compoundeth __any__ like it, or whosoever putteth __any__ of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people. +34 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; __these__ sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like __weight:__ +35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure __and__ holy: +36 And thou shalt beat __some__ of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. +37 And __as__ __for__ the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: +3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, +4 To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, +5 And in cutting of stones, to set __them__, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship. +6 And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee; +7 The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that __is__ thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle, +8 And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense, +9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot, +10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office, +11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy __place:__ according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do. +12 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it __is__ a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that __ye__ may know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that doth sanctify you. +14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it __is__ holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth __any__ work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. +15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh __is__ the sabbath of rest, holy to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: whosoever doeth __any__ work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. +16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, __for__ a perpetual covenant. +17 It __is__ a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for __in__ six days the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. +18 ¶ And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +1 AND when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for __as__ __for__ this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. +2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which __are__ in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring __them__ unto me. +3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which __were__ in their ears, and brought __them__ unto Aaron. +4 And he received __them__ at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These __be__ thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. +5 And when Aaron saw __it__, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow __is__ a feast to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. +7 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted __themselves:__ +8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These __be__ thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. +9 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it __is__ a stiffnecked people: +10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation. +11 And Moses besought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, and said, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? +12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. +13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit __it__ for ever. +14 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. +15 ¶ And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony __were__ in his hand: the tables __were__ written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other __were__ they written. +16 And the tables __were__ the work of God, and the writing __was__ the writing of God, graven upon the tables. +17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, __There__ __is__ a noise of war in the camp. +18 And he said, __It__ __is__ not the voice of __them__ __that__ shout for mastery, neither __is__ __it__ the voice of __them__ __that__ cry for being overcome: __but__ the noise of __them__ __that__ sing do I hear. +19 ¶ And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. +20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt __it__ in the fire, and ground __it__ to powder, and strawed __it__ upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink __of__ __it__. +21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? +22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they __are__ __set__ on mischief. +23 For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for __as__ __for__ this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. +24 And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break __it__ off. So they gave __it__ me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. +25 ¶ And when Moses saw that the people __were__ naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto __their__ shame among their enemies:) +26 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who __is__ on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s side? __let__ __him__ __come__ unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. +27 And he said unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, __and__ go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. +28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. +29 For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. +30 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. +31 And Moses returned unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. +32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin---; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. +33 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. +34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto __the__ __place__ of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. +35 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Depart, __and__ go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it: +2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: +3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou __art__ a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way. +4 ¶ And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments. +5 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye __are__ a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. +6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb. +7 And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, __that__ every one which sought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which __was__ without the camp. +8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, __that__ all the people rose up, and stood every man __at__ his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle. +9 And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood __at__ the door of the tabernacle, and __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ talked with Moses. +10 And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand __at__ the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man __in__ his tent door. +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle. +12 ¶ And Moses said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. +13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation __is__ thy people. +14 And he said, My presence shall go __with__ __thee__, and I will give thee rest. +15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not __with__ __me__, carry us not up hence. +16 For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? __is__ __it__ not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that __are__ upon the face of the earth. +17 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. +18 And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. +19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. +20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Behold, __there__ __is__ a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: +22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: +23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon __these__ tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. +2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. +3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. +4 ¶ And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ passed by before him, and proclaimed, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, +7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear __the__ __guilty;__ visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth __generation__. +8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. +9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it __is__ a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. +10 ¶ And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou __art__ shall see the work of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for it __is__ a terrible thing that I will do with thee. +11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. +12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: +13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: +14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, whose name __is__ Jealous, __is__ a jealous God: +15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and __one__ call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; +16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. +17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. +18 ¶ The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. +19 All that openeth the matrix __is__ mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, __whether__ ox or sheep, __that__ __is__ __male__. +20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem __him__ not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. +21 ¶ Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. +22 ¶ And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. +23 ¶ Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, the God of Israel. +24 For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God thrice in the year. +25 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. +26 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. +27 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. +28 And he was there with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. +29 ¶ And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. +30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. +31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. +32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had spoken with him in mount Sinai. +33 And __till__ Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. +34 But when Moses went in before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel __that__ which he was commanded. +35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him. +:::SET CHAPTER 35 +1 AND Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These __are__ the words which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded, that __ye__ should do them. +2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. +3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. +4 ¶ And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This __is__ the thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded, saying, +5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: whosoever __is__ of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; gold, and silver, and brass, +6 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' __hair__, +7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood, +8 And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, +9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate. +10 And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded; +11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets, +12 The ark, and the staves thereof, __with__ the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering, +13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread, +14 The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light, +15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle, +16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot, +17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court, +18 The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords, +19 The cloths of service, to do service in the holy __place__, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office. +20 ¶ And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. +21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, __and__ they brought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments. +22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, __and__ brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered __offered__ an offering of gold unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' __hair__, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought __them__. +24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought __it__. +25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, __both__ of blue, and of purple, __and__ of scarlet, and of fine linen. +26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' __hair__. +27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate; +28 And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. +29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses. +30 ¶ And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; +31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; +32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, +33 And in the cutting of stones, to set __them__, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. +34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, __both__ he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. +35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, __even__ of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work. +:::SET CHAPTER 36 +1 THEN wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded. +2 And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had put wisdom, __even__ every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it: +3 And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it __withal__. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning. +4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made; +5 ¶ And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded to make. +6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing. +7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. +8 ¶ And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains __of__ fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: __with__ cherubims of cunning work made he them. +9 The length of one curtain __was__ twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains __were__ all of one size. +10 And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and __the__ __other__ five curtains he coupled one unto another. +11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of __another__ curtain, in the coupling of the second. +12 Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which __was__ in the coupling of the second: the loops held one __curtain__ to another. +13 And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle. +14 ¶ And he made curtains __of__ goats' __hair__ for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them. +15 The length of one curtain __was__ thirty cubits, and four cubits __was__ the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains __were__ of one size. +16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. +17 And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second. +18 And he made fifty taches __of__ brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one. +19 And he made a covering for the tent __of__ rams' skins dyed red, and a covering __of__ badgers' skins above __that__. +20 ¶ And he made boards for the tabernacle __of__ shittim wood, standing up. +21 The length of a board __was__ ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half. +22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle. +23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward: +24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. +25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, __which__ __is__ toward the north corner, he made twenty boards, +26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. +27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. +28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. +29 And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners. +30 And there were eight boards; and their sockets __were__ sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets. +31 ¶ And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, +32 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward. +33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other. +34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings __of__ gold __to__ __be__ places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. +35 ¶ And he made a vail __of__ blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: __with__ cherubims made he it of cunning work. +36 And he made thereunto four pillars __of__ shittim __wood__, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks __were__ __of__ gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver. +37 ¶ And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door __of__ blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; +38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets __were__ __of__ brass. +:::SET CHAPTER 37 +1 AND Bezaleel made the ark __of__ shittim wood: two cubits and a half __was__ the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it: +2 And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. +3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, __to__ __be__ __set__ by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it. +4 And he made staves __of__ shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. +5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. +6 ¶ And he made the mercy seat __of__ pure gold: two cubits and a half __was__ the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof. +7 And he made two cherubims __of__ gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat; +8 One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the __other__ end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof. +9 And the cherubims spread out __their__ wings on high, __and__ covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; __even__ to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims. +10 ¶ And he made the table __of__ shittim wood: two cubits __was__ the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof: +11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about. +12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about. +13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that __were__ in the four feet thereof. +14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table. +15 And he made the staves __of__ shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table. +16 And he made the vessels which __were__ upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, __of__ pure gold. +17 ¶ And he made the candlestick __of__ pure gold: __of__ beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same: +18 And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof: +19 Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick. +20 And in the candlestick __were__ four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers: +21 And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it. +22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it __was__ one beaten work __of__ pure gold. +23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, __of__ pure gold. +24 __Of__ a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof. +25 ¶ And he made the incense altar __of__ shittim wood: the length of it __was__ a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; __it__ __was__ foursquare; and two cubits __was__ the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same. +26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, __both__ the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about. +27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal. +28 And he made the staves __of__ shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. +29 ¶ And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary. +:::SET CHAPTER 38 +1 AND he made the altar of burnt offering __of__ shittim wood: five cubits __was__ the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; __it__ __was__ foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof. +2 And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass. +3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, __and__ the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he __of__ brass. +4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it. +5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, __to__ __be__ places for the staves. +6 And he made the staves __of__ shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass. +7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards. +8 ¶ And he made the laver __of__ brass, and the foot of it __of__ brass, of the lookingglasses of __the__ __women__ assembling, which assembled __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +9 ¶ And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court __were__ __of__ fine twined linen, an hundred cubits: +10 Their pillars __were__ twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets __were__ __of__ silver. +11 And for the north side __the__ __hangings__ __were__ an hundred cubits, their pillars __were__ twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets __of__ silver. +12 And for the west side __were__ hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets __of__ silver. +13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits. +14 The hangings of the one side __of__ __the__ __gate__ __were__ fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. +15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, __were__ hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. +16 All the hangings of the court round about __were__ of fine twined linen. +17 And the sockets for the pillars __were__ __of__ brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets __of__ silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters __of__ silver; and all the pillars of the court __were__ filleted with silver. +18 And the hanging for the gate of the court __was__ needlework, __of__ blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits __was__ the length, and the height in the breadth __was__ five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court. +19 And their pillars __were__ four, and their sockets __of__ brass four; their hooks __of__ silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets __of__ silver. +20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, __were__ __of__ brass. +21 ¶ This is the sum of the tabernacle, __even__ of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, __for__ the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest. +22 And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +23 And with him __was__ Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen. +24 All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy __place__, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. +25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation __was__ an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: +26 A bekah for every man, __that__ __is__, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty __men__. +27 And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket. +28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five __shekels__ he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them. +29 And the brass of the offering __was__ seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels. +30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar, +31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about. +:::SET CHAPTER 39 +1 AND of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy __place__, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +2 And he made the ephod __of__ gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. +3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut __it__ __into__ wires, to work __it__ in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, __with__ cunning work. +4 They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple __it__ together: by the two edges was it coupled together. +5 And the curious girdle of his ephod, that __was__ upon it, __was__ of the same, according to the work thereof; __of__ gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +6 ¶ And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel. +7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, __that__ __they__ __should__ __be__ stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +8 ¶ And he made the breastplate __of__ cunning work, like the work of the ephod; __of__ gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. +9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span __was__ the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, __being__ doubled. +10 And they set in it four rows of stones: __the__ __first__ row __was__ a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this __was__ the first row. +11 And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. +12 And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. +13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: __they__ __were__ inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings. +14 And the stones __were__ according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, __like__ the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes. +15 And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, __of__ wreathen work __of__ pure gold. +16 And they made two ouches __of__ gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate. +17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate. +18 And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it. +19 And they made two rings of gold, and put __them__ on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which __was__ on the side of the ephod inward. +20 And they made two __other__ golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the __other__ coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod. +21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +22 ¶ And he made the robe of the ephod __of__ woven work, all __of__ blue. +23 And __there__ __was__ an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, __with__ a band round about the hole, that it should not rend. +24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates __of__ blue, and purple, and scarlet, __and__ twined __linen__. +25 And they made bells __of__ pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates; +26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister __in;__ as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +27 ¶ And they made coats __of__ fine linen __of__ woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, +28 And a mitre __of__ fine linen, and goodly bonnets __of__ fine linen, and linen breeches __of__ fine twined linen, +29 And a girdle __of__ fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, __of__ needlework; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +30 ¶ And they made the plate of the holy crown __of__ pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, __like__ __to__ the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. +31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten __it__ on high upon the mitre; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +32 ¶ Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses, so did they. +33 ¶ And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets, +34 And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering, +35 The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat, +36 The table, __and__ all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread, +37 The pure candlestick, __with__ the lamps thereof, __even__ __with__ the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light, +38 And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door, +39 The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot, +40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation, +41 The cloths of service to do service in the holy __place__, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office. +42 According to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work. +43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them. +:::SET CHAPTER 40 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. +3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail. +4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof. +5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle. +6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. +7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein. +8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate. +9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that __is__ therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy. +10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy. +11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it. +12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. +13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest's office. +14 And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats: +15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations. +16 Thus did Moses: according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded him, so did he. +17 ¶ And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first __day__ of the month, __that__ the tabernacle was reared up. +18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. +19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +20 ¶ And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark: +21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +22 ¶ And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail. +23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded Moses. +24 ¶ And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. +25 And he lighted the lamps before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +26 ¶ And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail: +27 And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +28 ¶ And he set up the hanging __at__ the door of the tabernacle. +29 And he put the altar of burnt offering __by__ the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +30 ¶ And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash __withal__. +31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat: +32 When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work. +34 ¶ Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ filled the tabernacle. +35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ filled the tabernacle. +36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: +37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. +38 For the cloud of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. +:::SET BOOK Leviticus +:::SET TITLE The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, __even__ of the herd, and of the flock. +3 If his offering __be__ a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. +5 And he shall kill the bullock before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that __is__ __by__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces. +7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire: +8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that __is__ on the fire which __is__ upon the altar: +9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, __to__ __be__ a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 ¶ And if his offering __be__ of the flocks, __namely__, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish. +11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar. +12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that __is__ on the fire which __is__ upon the altar: +13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring __it__ all, and burn __it__ upon the altar: it __is__ a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 ¶ And if the burnt sacrifice for his offering to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __be__ of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons. +15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn __it__ on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar: +16 And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes: +17 And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, __but__ shall not divide __it__ asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that __is__ upon the fire: it __is__ a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND when any will offer a meat offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, his offering shall be __of__ fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon: +2 And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, __to__ __be__ an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +3 And the remnant of the meat offering __shall__ __be__ Aaron's and his sons': __it__ __is__ a thing most holy of the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire. +4 ¶ And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, __it__ __shall__ __be__ unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. +5 ¶ And if thy oblation __be__ a meat offering __baken__ in a pan, it shall be __of__ fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil. +6 Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it __is__ a meat offering. +7 ¶ And if thy oblation __be__ a meat offering __baken__ in the fryingpan, it shall be made __of__ fine flour with oil. +8 And thou shalt bring the meat offering that is made of these things unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the altar. +9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn __it__ upon the altar: __it__ __is__ an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 And that which is left of the meat offering __shall__ __be__ Aaron's and his sons': __it__ __is__ a thing most holy of the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire. +11 No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire. +12 ¶ As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour. +13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. +14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, __even__ corn beaten out of full ears. +15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it __is__ a meat offering. +16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, __part__ of the beaten corn thereof, and __part__ of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: __it__ __is__ an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND if his oblation __be__ a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer __it__ of the herd; whether __it__ __be__ a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. +3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that __is__ upon the inwards, +4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that __is__ on them, which __is__ by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. +5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which __is__ upon the wood that __is__ on the fire: __it__ __is__ an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 ¶ And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __be__ of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. +7 If he offer a lamb for his offering, then shall he offer it before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar. +9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; the fat thereof, __and__ the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that __is__ upon the inwards, +10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that __is__ upon them, which __is__ by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. +11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: __it__ __is__ the food of the offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 ¶ And if his offering __be__ a goat, then he shall offer it before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about. +14 And he shall offer thereof his offering, __even__ an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that __is__ upon the inwards, +15 And the two kidneys, and the fat that __is__ upon them, which __is__ by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away. +16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: __it__ __is__ the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s. +17 __It__ __shall__ __be__ a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __concerning__ __things__ which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them: +3 If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for a sin offering. +4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation: +6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, before the vail of the sanctuary. +7 And the priest shall put __some__ of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which __is__ in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which __is__ __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +8 And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that __is__ upon the inwards, +9 And the two kidneys, and the fat that __is__ upon them, which __is__ by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away, +10 As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering. +11 And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung, +12 Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt. +13 ¶ And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done __somewhat__ __against__ any of the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __concerning__ __things__ which should not be done, and are guilty; +14 When the sin, which they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation. +15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the bullock shall be killed before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the congregation: +17 And the priest shall dip his finger __in__ __some__ of the blood, and sprinkle __it__ seven times before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ before the vail. +18 And he shall put __some__ of the blood upon the horns of the altar which __is__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that __is__ in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which __is__ __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn __it__ upon the altar. +20 And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them. +21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it __is__ a sin offering for the congregation. +22 ¶ When a ruler hath sinned, and done __somewhat__ through ignorance __against__ any of the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God __concerning__ __things__ which should not be done, and is guilty; +23 Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish: +24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it __is__ a sin offering. +25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put __it__ upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering. +26 And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him. +27 ¶ And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth __somewhat__ __against__ any of the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __concerning__ __things__ which ought not to be done, and be guilty; +28 Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned. +29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. +30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put __it__ upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar. +31 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn __it__ upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him. +32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish. +33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering. +34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put __it__ upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar: +35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and __is__ a witness, whether he hath seen or known __of__ __it;__ if he do not utter __it__, then he shall bear his iniquity. +2 Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether __it__ __be__ a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and __if__ it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty. +3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness __it__ __be__ that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth __of__ __it__, then he shall be guilty. +4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with __his__ lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever __it__ __be__ that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth __of__ __it__, then he shall be guilty in one of these. +5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these __things__, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that __thing:__ +6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin. +7 And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. +8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer __that__ which __is__ for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide __it__ asunder: +9 And he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it __is__ a sin offering. +10 And he shall offer the second __for__ a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. +11 ¶ But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put __any__ frankincense thereon: for it __is__ a sin offering. +12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, __even__ a memorial thereof, and burn __it__ on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it __is__ a sin offering. +13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and __the__ __remnant__ shall be the priest's, as a meat offering. +14 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering: +16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him. +17 ¶ And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; though he wist __it__ not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. +18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist __it__ not, and it shall be forgiven him. +19 It __is__ a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour; +3 Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein: +4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, +5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, __and__ give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering. +6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: +7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein. +8 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This __is__ the law of the burnt offering: It __is__ the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. +10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar. +11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place. +12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. +13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out. +14 ¶ And this __is__ the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, before the altar. +15 And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which __is__ upon the meat offering, and shall burn __it__ upon the altar __for__ a sweet savour, __even__ the memorial of it, unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it. +17 It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it __unto__ __them__ __for__ their portion of my offerings made by fire; it __is__ most holy, as __is__ the sin offering, and as the trespass offering. +18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. __It__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy. +19 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +20 This __is__ the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night. +21 In a pan it shall be made with oil; __and__ __when__ __it__ __is__ baken, thou shalt bring it in: __and__ the baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer __for__ a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: __it__ __is__ a statute for ever unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; it shall be wholly burnt. +23 For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten. +24 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +25 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This __is__ the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it __is__ most holy. +26 The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. +27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place. +28 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water. +29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it __is__ most holy. +30 And no sin offering, whereof __any__ of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile __withal__ in the holy __place__, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 LIKEWISE this __is__ the law of the trespass offering: it __is__ most holy. +2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar. +3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, +4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that __is__ on them, which __is__ by the flanks, and the caul __that__ __is__ above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away: +5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar __for__ an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it __is__ a trespass offering. +6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it __is__ most holy. +7 As the sin offering __is__, so __is__ the trespass offering: __there__ __is__ one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have __it__. +8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, __even__ the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered. +9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it. +10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one __as__ __much__ as another. +11 And this __is__ the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried. +13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer __for__ his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings. +14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation __for__ an heave offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings. +15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning. +16 But if the sacrifice of his offering __be__ a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten: +17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. +18 And if __any__ of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity. +19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean __thing__ shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof. +20 But the soul that eateth __of__ the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that __pertain__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. +21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean __thing__, __as__ the uncleanness of man, or __any__ unclean beast, or any abominable unclean __thing__, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which __pertain__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. +22 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat. +24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it. +25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, even the soul that eateth __it__ shall be cut off from his people. +26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, __whether__ __it__ __be__ of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. +27 Whatsoever soul __it__ __be__ that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. +28 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bring his oblation unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. +30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. +32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest __for__ an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. +33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for __his__ part. +34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel. +35 ¶ This __is__ __the__ __portion__ of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire, in the day __when__ he presented them to minister unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the priest's office; +36 Which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, __by__ a statute for ever throughout their generations. +37 This __is__ the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings; +38 Which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the wilderness of Sinai. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread; +3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +4 And Moses did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +5 And Moses said unto the congregation, This __is__ the thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded to be done. +6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. +7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound __it__ unto him therewith. +8 And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim. +9 And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, __even__ upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that __was__ therein, and sanctified them. +11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them. +12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. +13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +14 And he brought the bullock for the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering. +15 And he slew __it;__ and Moses took the blood, and put __it__ upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it. +16 And he took all the fat that __was__ upon the inwards, and the caul __above__ the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned __it__ upon the altar. +17 But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +18 ¶ And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. +19 And he killed __it;__ and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. +20 And he cut the ram into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat. +21 And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it __was__ a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, __and__ an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +22 ¶ And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. +23 And he slew __it;__ and Moses took of the blood of it, and put __it__ upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. +24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. +25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that __was__ upon the inwards, and the caul __above__ the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder: +26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that __was__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put __them__ on the fat, and upon the right shoulder: +27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt __them__ on the altar upon the burnt offering: they __were__ consecrations for a sweet savour: it __is__ an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __for__ of the ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which __was__ upon the altar, and sprinkled __it__ upon Aaron, __and__ upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, __and__ his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. +31 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that __is__ in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it. +32 And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire. +33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation __in__ seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you. +34 As he hath done this day, __so__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you. +35 Therefore shall ye abide __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that ye die not: for so I am commanded. +36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded by the hand of Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND it came to pass on the eighth day, __that__ Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; +2 And he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without blemish, and offer __them__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, __both__ of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering; +4 Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will appear unto you. +5 ¶ And they brought __that__ which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And Moses said, This __is__ the thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded that ye should do: and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall appear unto you. +7 And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded. +8 ¶ Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which __was__ for himself. +9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him: and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put __it__ upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the bottom of the altar: +10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +11 And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp. +12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar. +13 And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt __them__ upon the altar. +14 And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt __them__ upon the burnt offering on the altar. +15 ¶ And he brought the people's offering, and took the goat, which __was__ the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first. +16 And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner. +17 And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt __it__ upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning. +18 He slew also the bullock and the ram __for__ a sacrifice of peace offerings, which __was__ for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about, +19 And the fat of the bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth __the__ __inwards__, and the kidneys, and the caul __above__ the liver: +20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar: +21 And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; as Moses commanded. +22 And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings. +23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto all the people. +24 And there came a fire out from before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: __which__ when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he commanded them not. +2 And there went out fire from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and devoured them, and they died before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This __is__ __it__ that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. +4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. +5 So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said. +6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath kindled. +7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses. +8 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Aaron, saying, +9 Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: __it__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever throughout your generations: +10 And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; +11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. +12 ¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it __is__ most holy: +13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it __is__ thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire: for so I am commanded. +14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for __they__ __be__ thy due, and thy sons' due, __which__ are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel. +15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave __it__ __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded. +16 ¶ And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron __which__ __were__ left __alive__, saying, +17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it __is__ most holy, and __God__ hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy __place:__ ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy __place__, as I commanded. +19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and such things have befallen me: and __if__ I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +20 And when Moses heard __that__, he was content. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These __are__ the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that __are__ on the earth. +3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, __and__ cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. +4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: __as__ the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he __is__ unclean unto you. +5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he __is__ unclean unto you. +6 And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he __is__ unclean unto you. +7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he __is__ unclean to you. +8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they __are__ unclean to you. +9 ¶ These shall ye eat of all that __are__ in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. +10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which __is__ in the waters, they __shall__ __be__ an abomination unto you: +11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. +12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that __shall__ __be__ an abomination unto you. +13 ¶ And these __are__ __they__ __which__ ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they __are__ an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, +14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; +15 Every raven after his kind; +16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, +17 And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, +18 And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, +19 And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. +20 All fowls that creep, going upon __all__ four, __shall__ __be__ an abomination unto you. +21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon __all__ four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; +22 __Even__ these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. +23 But all __other__ flying creeping things, which have four feet, __shall__ __be__ an abomination unto you. +24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even. +25 And whosoever beareth __ought__ of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. +26 __The__ __carcases__ of every beast which divideth the hoof, and __is__ not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, __are__ unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean. +27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on __all__ four, those __are__ unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even. +28 And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they __are__ unclean unto you. +29 ¶ These also __shall__ __be__ unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, +30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. +31 These __are__ unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even. +32 And upon whatsoever __any__ of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether __it__ __be__ any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel __it__ __be__, wherein __any__ work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed. +33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto __any__ of them falleth, whatsoever __is__ in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it. +34 Of all meat which may be eaten, __that__ on which __such__ water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every __such__ vessel shall be unclean. +35 And every __thing__ whereupon __any__ __part__ of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; __whether__ __it__ __be__ oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: __for__ they __are__ unclean, and shall be unclean unto you. +36 Nevertheless a fountain or pit, __wherein__ __there__ __is__ plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean. +37 And if __any__ __part__ of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it __shall__ __be__ clean. +38 But if __any__ water be put upon the seed, and __any__ __part__ of their carcase fall thereon, it __shall__ __be__ unclean unto you. +39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even. +40 And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. +41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth __shall__ __be__ an abomination; it shall not be eaten. +42 Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon __all__ four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they __are__ an abomination. +43 Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. +44 For I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I __am__ holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. +45 For I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I __am__ holy. +46 This __is__ the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth: +47 To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. +3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. +4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. +5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days. +6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest: +7 Who shall offer it before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This __is__ the law for her that hath born a male or a female. +8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, +2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh __like__ the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: +3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and __when__ the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight __be__ deeper than the skin of his flesh, it __is__ a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean. +4 If the bright spot __be__ white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight __be__ not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up __him__ __that__ __hath__ the plague seven days: +5 And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, __if__ the plague in his sight be at a stay, __and__ the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more: +6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, __if__ the plague __be__ somewhat dark, __and__ the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it __is__ __but__ a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. +7 But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again: +8 And __if__ the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it __is__ a leprosy. +9 ¶ When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest; +10 And the priest shall see __him:__ and, behold, __if__ the rising __be__ white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and __there__ __be__ quick raw flesh in the rising; +11 It __is__ an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he __is__ unclean. +12 And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of __him__ __that__ __hath__ the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh; +13 Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, __if__ the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce __him__ clean __that__ __hath__ the plague: it is all turned white: he __is__ clean. +14 But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean. +15 And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: __for__ the raw flesh __is__ unclean: it __is__ a leprosy. +16 Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest; +17 And the priest shall see him: and, behold, __if__ the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce __him__ clean __that__ __hath__ the plague: he __is__ clean. +18 ¶ The flesh also, in which, __even__ in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed, +19 And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest; +20 And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it __be__ in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it __is__ a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil. +21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, __there__ __be__ no white hairs therein, and __if__ it __be__ not lower than the skin, but __be__ somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: +22 And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it __is__ a plague. +23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, __and__ spread not, it __is__ a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. +24 ¶ Or if there be __any__ flesh, in the skin whereof __there__ __is__ a hot burning, and the quick __flesh__ that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white; +25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, __if__ the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it __be__ __in__ sight deeper than the skin; it __is__ a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it __is__ the plague of leprosy. +26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, __there__ __be__ no white hair in the bright spot, and it __be__ no lower than the __other__ skin, but __be__ somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days: +27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: __and__ if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it __is__ the plague of leprosy. +28 And if the bright spot stay in his place, __and__ spread not in the skin, but it __be__ somewhat dark; it __is__ a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it __is__ an inflammation of the burning. +29 ¶ If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard; +30 Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it __be__ in sight deeper than the skin; __and__ __there__ __be__ in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it __is__ a dry scall, __even__ a leprosy upon the head or beard. +31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it __be__ not in sight deeper than the skin, and __that__ __there__ __is__ no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up __him__ __that__ __hath__ the plague of the scall seven days: +32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, __if__ the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall __be__ not in sight deeper than the skin; +33 He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up __him__ __that__ __hath__ the scall seven days more: +34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall: and, behold, __if__ the scall be not spread in the skin, nor __be__ in sight deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. +35 But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing; +36 Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he __is__ unclean. +37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and __that__ there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he __is__ clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean. +38 ¶ If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, __even__ white bright spots; +39 Then the priest shall look: and, behold, __if__ the bright spots in the skin of their flesh __be__ darkish white; it __is__ a freckled spot __that__ groweth in the skin; he __is__ clean. +40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he __is__ bald; __yet__ __is__ he clean. +41 And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he __is__ forehead bald: __yet__ __is__ he clean. +42 And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it __is__ a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead. +43 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, __if__ the rising of the sore __be__ white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh; +44 He is a leprous man, he __is__ unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague __is__ in his head. +45 And the leper in whom the plague __is__, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. +46 All the days wherein the plague __shall__ __be__ in him he shall be defiled; he __is__ unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp __shall__ his habitation __be__. +47 ¶ The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, __whether__ __it__ __be__ a woollen garment, or a linen garment; +48 Whether __it__ __be__ in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin; +49 And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it __is__ a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest: +50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up __it__ __that__ __hath__ the plague seven days: +51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, __or__ in any work that is made of skin; the plague __is__ a fretting leprosy; it __is__ unclean. +52 He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it __is__ a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire. +53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; +54 Then the priest shall command that they wash __the__ __thing__ wherein the plague __is__, and he shall shut it up seven days more: +55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, __if__ the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it __is__ unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it __is__ fret inward, __whether__ it __be__ bare within or without. +56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague __be__ somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof: +57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it __is__ a spreading __plague:__ thou shalt burn that wherein the plague __is__ with fire. +58 And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin __it__ __be__, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean. +59 This __is__ the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest: +3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, __if__ the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; +4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive __and__ clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: +5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: +6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird __that__ __was__ killed over the running water: +7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. +8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days. +9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean. +10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour __for__ a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. +11 And the priest that maketh __him__ clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: +12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering __is__ the priest's, __so__ __is__ the trespass offering: it __is__ most holy: +14 And the priest shall take __some__ of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put __it__ upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: +15 And the priest shall take __some__ of the log of oil, and pour __it__ into the palm of his own left hand: +16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that __is__ in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +17 And of the rest of the oil that __is__ in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering: +18 And the remnant of the oil that __is__ in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering: +20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean. +21 And if he __be__ poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb __for__ a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil; +22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering. +23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take __some__ of the blood of the trespass offering, and put __it__ upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: +26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand: +27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger __some__ of the oil that __is__ in his left hand seven times before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +28 And the priest shall put of the oil that __is__ in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering: +29 And the rest of the oil that __is__ in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get; +31 __Even__ such as he is able to get, the one __for__ a sin offering, and the other __for__ a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +32 This __is__ the law __of__ __him__ in whom __is__ the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get __that__ __which__ __pertaineth__ to his cleansing. +33 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, +34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; +35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me __there__ __is__ as it were a plague in the house: +36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go __into__ __it__ to see the plague, that all that __is__ in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: +37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, __if__ the plague __be__ in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight __are__ lower than the wall; +38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days: +39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, __if__ the plague be spread in the walls of the house; +40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague __is__, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city: +41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: +42 And they shall take other stones, and put __them__ in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house. +43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered; +44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, __if__ the plague be spread in the house, it __is__ a fretting leprosy in the house: it __is__ unclean. +45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry __them__ forth out of the city into an unclean place. +46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. +47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. +48 And if the priest shall come in, and look __upon__ __it__, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. +49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: +50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: +51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: +52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: +53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean. +54 This __is__ the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall, +55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house, +56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot: +57 To teach when __it__ __is__ unclean, and when __it__ __is__ clean: this __is__ the law of leprosy. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, __because__ __of__ his issue he __is__ unclean. +3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it __is__ his uncleanness. +4 Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean. +5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +6 And he that sitteth on __any__ thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean. +10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth __any__ __of__ those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +12 And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. +13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean. +14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest: +15 And the priest shall offer them, the one __for__ a sin offering, and the other __for__ a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for his issue. +16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. +17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. +18 The woman also with whom man shall lie __with__ seed of copulation, they shall __both__ bathe __themselves__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +19 ¶ And if a woman have an issue, __and__ her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. +20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. +21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +23 And if it __be__ on __her__ bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. +24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean. +25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she __shall__ __be__ unclean. +26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. +27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even. +28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. +29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +30 And the priest shall offer the one __for__ a sin offering, and the other __for__ a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for the issue of her uncleanness. +31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that __is__ among them. +32 This __is__ the law of him that hath an issue, and __of__ __him__ whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith; +33 And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and died; +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy __place__ within the vail before the mercy seat, which __is__ upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. +3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy __place:__ with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. +4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these __are__ holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and __so__ put them on. +5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. +6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which __is__ for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house. +7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the other lot for the scapegoat. +9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s lot fell, and offer him __for__ a sin offering. +10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to make an atonement with him, __and__ to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness. +11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which __is__ for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which __is__ for himself: +12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring __it__ within the vail: +13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that __is__ upon the testimony, that he die not: +14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle __it__ with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. +15 ¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that __is__ for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: +16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy __place__, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. +17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy __place__, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. +18 And he shall go out unto the altar that __is__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put __it__ upon the horns of the altar round about. +19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. +20 ¶ And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy __place__, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: +21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send __him__ away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: +22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. +23 And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy __place__, and shall leave them there: +24 And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people. +25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. +26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp. +27 And the bullock __for__ the sin offering, and the goat __for__ the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy __place__, shall __one__ carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. +28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. +29 ¶ And __this__ shall be a statute for ever unto you: __that__ in the seventh month, on the tenth __day__ of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, __whether__ __it__ __be__ one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: +30 For on that day shall __the__ __priest__ make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, __that__ ye may be clean from all your sins before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 It __shall__ __be__ a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever. +32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, __even__ the holy garments: +33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. +34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This __is__ the thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded, saying, +3 What man soever __there__ __be__ of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth __it__ out of the camp, +4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ before the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people: +5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer them __for__ peace offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations. +8 ¶ And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man __there__ __be__ of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice, +9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; even that man shall be cut off from among his people. +10 ¶ And whatsoever man __there__ __be__ of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. +11 For the life of the flesh __is__ in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it __is__ the blood __that__ maketh an atonement for the soul. +12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. +13 And whatsoever man __there__ __be__ of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. +14 For __it__ __is__ the life of all flesh; the blood of it __is__ for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh __is__ the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. +15 And every soul that eateth that which died __of__ __itself__, or that which was torn __with__ __beasts__, __whether__ __it__ __be__ one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe __himself__ in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean. +16 But if he wash __them__ not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. +4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 ¶ None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover __their__ nakedness: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she __is__ thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. +8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it __is__ thy father's nakedness. +9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, __whether__ __she__ __be__ born at home, or born abroad, __even__ their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. +10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, __even__ their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs __is__ thine own nakedness. +11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she __is__ thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. +12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she __is__ thy father's near kinswoman. +13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she __is__ thy mother's near kinswoman. +14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she __is__ thine aunt. +15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she __is__ thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. +16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it __is__ thy brother's nakedness. +17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; __for__ they __are__ her near kinswomen: it __is__ wickedness. +18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex __her__, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life __time__. +19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. +20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. +21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through __the__ __fire__ to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it __is__ abomination. +23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it __is__ confusion. +24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: +25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. +26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit __any__ of these abominations; __neither__ any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: +27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which __were__ before you, and the land is defiled;) +28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that __were__ before you. +29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit __them__ shall be cut off from among their people. +30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that __ye__ commit not __any__ __one__ of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God __am__ holy. +3 ¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +4 ¶ Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +5 ¶ And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye shall offer it at your own will. +6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire. +7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it __is__ abominable; it shall not be accepted. +8 Therefore __every__ __one__ that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. +9 ¶ And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. +10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather __every__ grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +11 ¶ Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another. +12 ¶ And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 ¶ Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob __him:__ the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. +14 ¶ Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 ¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: __but__ in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. +16 ¶ Thou shalt not go up and down __as__ a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 ¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. +18 ¶ Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 ¶ Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. +20 ¶ And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that __is__ a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. +21 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, __even__ a ram for a trespass offering. +22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him. +23 ¶ And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. +24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __withal__. +25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +26 ¶ Ye shall not eat __any__ __thing__ with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. +27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. +28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +29 ¶ Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. +30 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 ¶ Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +32 ¶ Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +33 ¶ And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. +34 __But__ the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +35 ¶ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. +36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. +37 Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever __he__ __be__ of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth __any__ of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. +3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. +4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: +5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. +6 ¶ And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. +7 ¶ Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which sanctify you. +9 ¶ For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood __shall__ __be__ upon him. +10 ¶ And the man that committeth adultery with __another__ man's wife, __even__ __he__ that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. +11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood __shall__ __be__ upon them. +12 And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood __shall__ __be__ upon them. +13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood __shall__ __be__ upon them. +14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it __is__ wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. +15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. +16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood __shall__ __be__ upon them. +17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it __is__ a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. +18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. +19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. +20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. +21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it __is__ an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. +22 ¶ Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. +23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. +24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which have separated you from __other__ people. +25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. +26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __am__ holy, and have severed you from __other__ people, that ye should be mine. +27 ¶ A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood __shall__ __be__ upon them. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: +2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, __that__ __is__, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, +3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled. +4 __But__ he shall not defile himself, __being__ a chief man among his people, to profane himself. +5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. +6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire, __and__ the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy. +7 They shall not take a wife __that__ __is__ a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he __is__ holy unto his God. +8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which sanctify you, __am__ holy. +9 ¶ And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. +10 And __he__ __that__ __is__ the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; +11 Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; +12 Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God __is__ upon him: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity. +14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, __or__ an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. +15 Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do sanctify him. +16 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever __he__ __be__ of thy seed in their generations that hath __any__ blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. +18 For whatsoever man __he__ __be__ that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, +19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, +20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; +21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. +22 He shall eat the bread of his God, __both__ of the most holy, and of the holy. +23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do sanctify them. +24 And Moses told __it__ unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name __in__ __those__ __things__ which they hallow unto me: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 Say unto them, Whosoever __he__ __be__ of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron __is__ a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing __that__ __is__ unclean __by__ the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him; +5 Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; +6 The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. +7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it __is__ his food. +8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn __with__ __beasts__, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do sanctify them. +10 There shall no stranger eat __of__ the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat __of__ the holy thing. +11 But if the priest buy __any__ soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. +12 If the priest's daughter also be __married__ unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. +13 But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof. +14 ¶ And if a man eat __of__ the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth __part__ thereof unto it, and shall give __it__ unto the priest with the holy thing. +15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; +16 Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do sanctify them. +17 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever __he__ __be__ of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for a burnt offering; +19 __Ye__ __shall__ __offer__ at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. +20 __But__ whatsoever hath a blemish, __that__ shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. +21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to accomplish __his__ vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. +22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer __for__ a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. +24 Ye shall not offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make __any__ __offering__ __thereof__ in your land. +25 Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption __is__ in them, __and__ blemishes __be__ in them: they shall not be accepted for you. +26 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +28 And __whether__ __it__ __be__ cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day. +29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, offer __it__ at your own will. +30 On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +32 Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which hallow you, +33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, __Concerning__ the feasts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which ye shall proclaim __to__ __be__ holy convocations, __even__ these __are__ my feasts. +3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day __is__ the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work __therein:__ it __is__ the sabbath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in all your dwellings. +4 ¶ These __are__ the feasts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. +5 In the fourteenth __day__ of the first month at even __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s passover. +6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month __is__ the feast of unleavened bread unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. +7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. +8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ seven days: in the seventh day __is__ an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work __therein__. +9 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: +11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. +12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And the meat offering thereof __shall__ __be__ two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __for__ a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof __shall__ __be__ of wine, the fourth __part__ of an hin. +14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: __it__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. +15 ¶ And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: +16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; __they__ __are__ the firstfruits unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be __for__ a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, __even__ an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. +20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for the priest. +21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, __that__ it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work __therein:__ __it__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. +22 ¶ And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +23 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first __day__ of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. +25 Ye shall do no servile work __therein:__ but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +26 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +27 Also on the tenth __day__ of this seventh month __there__ __shall__ __be__ a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it __is__ a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +29 For whatsoever soul __it__ __be__ that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. +30 And whatsoever soul __it__ __be__ that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. +31 Ye shall do no manner of work: __it__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. +32 It __shall__ __be__ unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth __day__ of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. +33 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month __shall__ __be__ the feast of tabernacles __for__ seven days unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +35 On the first day __shall__ __be__ an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work __therein__. +36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it __is__ a solemn assembly; __and__ ye shall do no servile work __therein__. +37 These __are__ the feasts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which ye shall proclaim __to__ __be__ holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: +38 Beside the sabbaths of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ seven days: on the first day __shall__ __be__ a sabbath, and on the eighth day __shall__ __be__ a sabbath. +40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God seven days. +41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ seven days in the year. __It__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. +42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: +43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. +3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ continually: __it__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever in your generations. +4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ continually. +5 ¶ And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. +6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon __each__ row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, __even__ an offering made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ continually, __being__ __taken__ from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. +9 And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it __is__ most holy unto him of the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire by a perpetual statute. +10 ¶ And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father __was__ an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish __woman__ and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; +11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name __of__ __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name __was__ Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) +12 And they put him in ward, that the mind of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ might be shewed them. +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +14 Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard __him__ lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. +15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. +16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he shall surely be put to death, __and__ all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name __of__ __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__, shall be put to death. +17 ¶ And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. +18 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast. +19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him; +20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him __again__. +21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. +22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +23 ¶ And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; +4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. +5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: __for__ it is a year of rest unto the land. +6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, +7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that __are__ in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. +8 ¶ And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. +9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth __day__ of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. +10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout __all__ the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. +11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather __the__ __grapes__ in it of thy vine undressed. +12 For it __is__ the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. +13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. +14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest __ought__ of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: +15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, __and__ according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: +16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for __according__ to the number __of__ __the__ __years__ of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. +17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +18 ¶ Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. +19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. +20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: +21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. +22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat __yet__ of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat __of__ the old __store__. +23 ¶ The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land __is__ mine; for ye __are__ strangers and sojourners with me. +24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. +25 ¶ If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away __some__ of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. +26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; +27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. +28 But if he be not able to restore __it__ to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. +29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; __within__ a full year may he redeem it. +30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that __is__ in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. +31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile. +32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, __and__ the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. +33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in __the__ __year__ __of__ jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites __are__ their possession among the children of Israel. +34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it __is__ their perpetual possession. +35 ¶ And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: __yea__, __though__ __he__ __be__ a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. +36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. +37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. +38 I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, __and__ to be your God. +39 ¶ And if thy brother __that__ __dwelleth__ by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: +40 __But__ as an hired servant, __and__ as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, __and__ shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: +41 And __then__ shall he depart from thee, __both__ he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. +42 For they __are__ my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. +43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. +44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, __shall__ __be__ of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. +45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that __are__ with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. +46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit __them__ __for__ a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. +47 ¶ And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother __that__ __dwelleth__ by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger __or__ sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: +48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: +49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or __any__ that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. +50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. +51 If __there__ __be__ yet many years __behind__, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. +52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, __and__ according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. +53 __And__ as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: __and__ __the__ __other__ shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. +54 And if he be not redeemed in these __years__, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, __both__ he, and his children with him. +55 For unto me the children of Israel __are__ servants; they __are__ my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 YE shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up __any__ image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +2 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 ¶ If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; +4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. +5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. +6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make __you__ afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. +7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. +8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. +9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. +10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. +11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. +12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. +13 I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright. +14 ¶ But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; +15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, __but__ that ye break my covenant: +16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. +17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. +18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. +19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: +20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. +21 ¶ And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. +22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your __high__ ways shall be desolate. +23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; +24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. +25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of __my__ covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. +26 __And__ when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver __you__ your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. +27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; +28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. +29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. +30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. +31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. +32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. +33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. +34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye __be__ in your enemies' land; __even__ then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. +35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. +36 And upon them that are left __alive__ of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. +37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. +38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. +39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. +40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me; +41 And __that__ I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: +42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. +43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. +44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God. +45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +46 These __are__ the statutes and judgments and laws, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons __shall__ __be__ for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by thy estimation. +3 And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. +4 And if it __be__ a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels. +5 And if __it__ __be__ from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. +6 And if __it__ __be__ from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation __shall__ __be__ three shekels of silver. +7 And if __it__ __be__ from sixty years old and above; if __it__ __be__ a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. +8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him. +9 And if __it__ __be__ a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all that __any__ __man__ giveth of such unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be holy. +10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy. +11 And if __it__ __be__ any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, then he shall present the beast before the priest: +12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, __who__ __art__ the priest, so shall it be. +13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth __part__ thereof unto thy estimation. +14 ¶ And when a man shall sanctify his house __to__ __be__ holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. +15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth __part__ of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. +16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __some__ __part__ of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed __shall__ __be__ __valued__ at fifty shekels of silver. +17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand. +18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation. +19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth __part__ of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. +20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. +21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's. +22 And if __a__ __man__ sanctify unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ a field which he hath bought, which __is__ not of the fields of his possession; +23 Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, __even__ unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, __as__ a holy thing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +24 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, __even__ to him to whom the possession of the land __did__ __belong__. +25 And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. +26 ¶ Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether __it__ __be__ ox, or sheep: it __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s. +27 And if __it__ __be__ of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem __it__ according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth __part__ of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation. +28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of all that he hath, __both__ of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing __is__ most holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; __but__ shall surely be put to death. +30 And all the tithe of the land, __whether__ of the seed of the land, __or__ of the fruit of the tree, __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s: __it__ __is__ holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 And if a man will at all redeem __ought__ of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth __part__ thereof. +32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, __even__ of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. +34 These __are__ the commandments, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai. +:::SET BOOK Numbers +:::SET TITLE The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first __day__ of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, +2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of __their__ names, every male by their polls; +3 From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies. +4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers. +5 ¶ And these __are__ the names of the men that shall stand with you: of __the__ __tribe__ __of__ Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur. +6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. +7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab. +8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar. +9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon. +10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. +11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni. +12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. +13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran. +14 Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. +15 Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan. +16 These __were__ the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel. +17 ¶ And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by __their__ names: +18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first __day__ of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. +19 As the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. +20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +21 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Reuben, __were__ forty and six thousand and five hundred. +22 ¶ Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +23 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Simeon, __were__ fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. +24 ¶ Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +25 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Gad, __were__ forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty. +26 ¶ Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +27 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Judah, __were__ threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. +28 ¶ Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +29 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Issachar, __were__ fifty and four thousand and four hundred. +30 ¶ Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +31 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Zebulun, __were__ fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. +32 ¶ Of the children of Joseph, __namely__, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +33 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Ephraim, __were__ forty thousand and five hundred. +34 ¶ Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +35 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Manasseh, __were__ thirty and two thousand and two hundred. +36 ¶ Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +37 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Benjamin, __were__ thirty and five thousand and four hundred. +38 ¶ Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +39 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Dan, __were__ threescore and two thousand and seven hundred. +40 ¶ Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +41 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Asher, __were__ forty and one thousand and five hundred. +42 ¶ Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; +43 Those that were numbered of them, __even__ of the tribe of Naphtali, __were__ fifty and three thousand and four hundred. +44 These __are__ those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, __being__ twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers. +45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; +46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. +47 ¶ But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. +48 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had spoken unto Moses, saying, +49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel: +50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that __belong__ to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. +51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. +52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts. +53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony. +54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses, so did they. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, +2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch. +3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab __shall__ __be__ captain of the children of Judah. +4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, __were__ threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. +5 And those that do pitch next unto him __shall__ __be__ the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar __shall__ __be__ captain of the children of Issachar. +6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, __were__ fifty and four thousand and four hundred. +7 __Then__ the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon __shall__ __be__ captain of the children of Zebulun. +8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, __were__ fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. +9 All that were numbered in the camp of Judah __were__ an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth. +10 ¶ On the south side __shall__ __be__ the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben __shall__ __be__ Elizur the son of Shedeur. +11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, __were__ forty and six thousand and five hundred. +12 And those which pitch by him __shall__ __be__ the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon __shall__ __be__ Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. +13 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, __were__ fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. +14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad __shall__ __be__ Eliasaph the son of Reuel. +15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, __were__ forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty. +16 All that were numbered in the camp of Reuben __were__ an hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they shall set forth in the second rank. +17 ¶ Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards. +18 ¶ On the west side __shall__ __be__ the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim __shall__ __be__ Elishama the son of Ammihud. +19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, __were__ forty thousand and five hundred. +20 And by him __shall__ __be__ the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh __shall__ __be__ Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. +21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, __were__ thirty and two thousand and two hundred. +22 Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin __shall__ __be__ Abidan the son of Gideoni. +23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, __were__ thirty and five thousand and four hundred. +24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim __were__ an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank. +25 ¶ The standard of the camp of Dan __shall__ __be__ on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan __shall__ __be__ Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. +26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, __were__ threescore and two thousand and seven hundred. +27 And those that encamp by him __shall__ __be__ the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher __shall__ __be__ Pagiel the son of Ocran. +28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, __were__ forty and one thousand and five hundred. +29 ¶ Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali __shall__ __be__ Ahira the son of Enan. +30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, __were__ fifty and three thousand and four hundred. +31 All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan __were__ an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards. +32 ¶ These __are__ those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts __were__ six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. +33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +34 And the children of Israel did according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THESE also __are__ the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake with Moses in mount Sinai. +2 And these __are__ the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. +3 These __are__ the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. +4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when they offered strange fire before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father. +5 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. +7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle. +8 And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle. +9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they __are__ wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel. +10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine; +13 Because all the firstborn __are__ mine; __for__ on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, +15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. +16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as he was commanded. +17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. +18 And these __are__ the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. +19 And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. +20 And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These __are__ the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers. +21 Of Gershon __was__ the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these __are__ the families of the Gershonites. +22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, __even__ those that were numbered of them __were__ seven thousand and five hundred. +23 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward. +24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites __shall__ __be__ Eliasaph the son of Lael. +25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation __shall__ __be__ the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, +26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which __is__ by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof. +27 ¶ And of Kohath __was__ the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these __are__ the families of the Kohathites. +28 In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, __were__ eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary. +29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward. +30 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites __shall__ __be__ Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. +31 And their charge __shall__ __be__ the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof. +32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest __shall__ __be__ chief over the chief of the Levites, __and__ __have__ the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary. +33 ¶ Of Merari __was__ the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these __are__ the families of Merari. +34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, __were__ six thousand and two hundred. +35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari __was__ Zuriel the son of Abihail: __these__ shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward. +36 And __under__ the custody and charge of the sons of Merari __shall__ __be__ the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto, +37 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords. +38 ¶ But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, __even__ before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, __shall__ __be__ Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. +39 All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, __were__ twenty and two thousand. +40 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names. +41 And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel. +42 And Moses numbered, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. +43 And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen. +44 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +45 Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites; +47 Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take __them:__ (the shekel __is__ twenty gerahs:) +48 And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. +49 And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites: +50 Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five __shekels__, after the shekel of the sanctuary: +51 And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, +2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, +3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. +4 This __shall__ __be__ the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, __about__ the most holy things: +5 ¶ And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: +6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over __it__ a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof. +7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: +8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof. +9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it: +10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put __it__ upon a bar. +11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof: +12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put __them__ in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put __them__ on a bar: +13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon: +14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, __even__ the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it. +15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear __it:__ but they shall not touch __any__ holy thing, lest they die. These __things__ __are__ the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation. +16 ¶ And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest __pertaineth__ the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, __and__ the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein __is__, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof. +17 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, +18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites: +19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden: +20 But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die. +21 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families; +23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. +24 This __is__ the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: +25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that __is__ above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, +26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which __is__ by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve. +27 At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens. +28 This __is__ the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge __shall__ __be__ under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. +29 ¶ As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; +30 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. +31 And this __is__ the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof, +32 And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden. +33 This __is__ the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. +34 ¶ And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers, +35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation: +36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. +37 These __were__ they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the hand of Moses. +38 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers, +39 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation, +40 Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty. +41 These __are__ they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +42 ¶ And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, +43 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation, +44 Even those that were numbered of them after their families, were three thousand and two hundred. +45 These __be__ those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the hand of Moses. +46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers, +47 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation, +48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore. +49 According to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: +3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. +4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel. +5 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and that person be guilty; +7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth __part__ thereof, and give __it__ unto __him__ against whom he hath trespassed. +8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him. +9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his. +10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his. +11 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, +13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and __there__ __be__ no witness against her, neither she be taken __with__ __the__ __manner;__ +14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: +15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth __part__ of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it __is__ an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. +16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put __it__ into the water: +18 And the priest shall set the woman before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which __is__ the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse: +19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness __with__ __another__ instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse: +20 But if thou hast gone aside __to__ __another__ instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband: +21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell; +22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make __thy__ belly to swell, and __thy__ thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. +23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot __them__ out with the bitter water: +24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, __and__ __become__ bitter. +25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and offer it upon the altar: +26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, __even__ the memorial thereof, and burn __it__ upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. +27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, __that__, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, __and__ __become__ bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. +28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. +29 This __is__ the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside __to__ __another__ instead of her husband, and is defiled; +30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. +31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate __themselves__ to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate __themselves__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +3 He shall separate __himself__ from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. +4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. +5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no rasor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth __himself__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he shall be holy, __and__ shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. +6 All the days that he separateth __himself__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ he shall come at no dead body. +7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God __is__ upon his head. +8 All the days of his separation he __is__ holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 And if any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. +10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: +11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day. +12 And he shall consecrate unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled. +13 ¶ And this __is__ the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: +14 And he shall offer his offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings, +15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings. +16 And the priest shall bring __them__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering: +17 And he shall offer the ram __for__ a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering. +18 And the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put __it__ in the fire which __is__ under the sacrifice of the peace offerings. +19 And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put __them__ upon the hands of the Nazarite, after __the__ __hair__ __of__ his separation is shaven: +20 And the priest shall wave them __for__ a wave offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: this __is__ holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine. +21 This __is__ the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, __and__ __of__ his offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for his separation, beside __that__ that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation. +22 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them, +24 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bless thee, and keep thee: +25 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: +26 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. +27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 AND it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them; +2 That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who __were__ the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered: +3 And they brought their offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle. +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +5 Take __it__ of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service. +6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites. +7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service: +8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. +9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them __was__ __that__ they should bear upon their shoulders. +10 ¶ And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes offered their offering before the altar. +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar. +12 ¶ And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: +13 And his offering __was__ one silver charger, the weight thereof __was__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them __were__ full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +14 One spoon of ten __shekels__ of gold, full of incense: +15 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab. +18 ¶ On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer: +19 He offered __for__ his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof __was__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +20 One spoon of gold of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar. +24 ¶ On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, __did__ __offer:__ +25 His offering __was__ one silver charger, the weight whereof __was__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +26 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Eliab the son of Helon. +30 ¶ On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben, __did__ __offer:__ +31 His offering __was__ one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +32 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +33 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +34 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +35 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur. +36 ¶ On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon, __did__ __offer:__ +37 His offering __was__ one silver charger, the weight whereof __was__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +38 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. +42 ¶ On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, __offered:__ +43 His offering __was__ one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty __shekels__, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +44 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +45 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +46 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +47 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel. +48 ¶ On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of Ephraim, __offered:__ +49 His offering __was__ one silver charger, the weight whereof __was__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +50 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +51 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +52 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +53 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud. +54 ¶ On the eighth day __offered__ Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh: +55 His offering __was__ one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +56 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +57 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +58 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +59 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. +60 ¶ On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin, __offered:__ +61 His offering __was__ one silver charger, the weight whereof __was__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +62 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +63 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +64 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +65 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. +66 ¶ On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, __offered:__ +67 His offering __was__ one silver charger, the weight whereof __was__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +68 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +69 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +70 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +71 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. +72 ¶ On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, __offered:__ +73 His offering __was__ one silver charger, the weight whereof __was__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +74 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +75 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +76 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +77 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran. +78 ¶ On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali, __offered:__ +79 His offering __was__ one silver charger, the weight whereof __was__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering: +80 One golden spoon of ten __shekels__, full of incense: +81 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering: +82 One kid of the goats for a sin offering: +83 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this __was__ the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. +84 This __was__ the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold: +85 Each charger of silver __weighing__ an hundred and thirty __shekels__, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels __weighed__ two thousand and four hundred __shekels__, after the shekel of the sanctuary: +86 The golden spoons __were__ twelve, full of incense, __weighing__ ten __shekels__ apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons __was__ an hundred and twenty __shekels__. +87 All the oxen for the burnt offering __were__ twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve. +88 And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings __were__ twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This __was__ the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed. +89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that __was__ upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. +3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +4 And this work of the candlestick __was__ __of__ beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, __was__ beaten work: according unto the pattern which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick. +5 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. +7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and __so__ make themselves clean. +8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, __even__ fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering. +9 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together: +10 And thou shalt bring the Levites before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites: +11 And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __for__ an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one __for__ a sin offering, and the other __for__ a burnt offering, unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to make an atonement for the Levites. +13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them __for__ an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine. +15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them __for__ an offering. +16 For they __are__ wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, __even__ __instead__ __of__ the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. +17 For all the firstborn of the children of Israel __are__ mine, __both__ man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. +18 And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel. +19 And I have given the Levites __as__ a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary. +20 And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them. +21 And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them __as__ an offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them. +22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them. +23 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +24 This __is__ __it__ that __belongeth__ unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: +25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service __thereof__, and shall serve no more: +26 But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, +2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. +3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it. +4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. +5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. +6 ¶ And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day: +7 And those men said unto him, We __are__ defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in his appointed season among the children of Israel? +8 And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will command concerning you. +9 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or __be__ in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, __and__ eat it with unleavened bread and bitter __herbs__. +12 They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it. +13 But the man that __is__ clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. +14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. +15 ¶ And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, __namely__, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. +16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it __by__ __day__, and the appearance of fire by night. +17 And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents. +18 At the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. +19 And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and journeyed not. +20 And __so__ it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ they journeyed. +21 And __so__ it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and __that__ the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether __it__ __was__ by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. +22 Or __whether__ __it__ __were__ two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed. +23 At the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ they journeyed: they kept the charge of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, at the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the hand of Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. +3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +4 And if they blow __but__ with one __trumpet__, then the princes, __which__ __are__ heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. +5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward. +6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. +7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. +8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. +9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. +10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +11 ¶ And it came to pass on the twentieth __day__ of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. +12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran. +13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the hand of Moses. +14 ¶ In the first __place__ went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host __was__ Nahshon the son of Amminadab. +15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar __was__ Nethaneel the son of Zuar. +16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun __was__ Eliab the son of Helon. +17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle. +18 ¶ And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host __was__ Elizur the son of Shedeur. +19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon __was__ Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. +20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad __was__ Eliasaph the son of Deuel. +21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and __the__ __other__ did set up the tabernacle against they came. +22 ¶ And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host __was__ Elishama the son of Ammihud. +23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh __was__ Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. +24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin __was__ Abidan the son of Gideoni. +25 ¶ And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, __which__ __was__ the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host __was__ Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. +26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher __was__ Pagiel the son of Ocran. +27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali __was__ Ahira the son of Enan. +28 Thus __were__ the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward. +29 ¶ And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken good concerning Israel. +30 And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. +31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes. +32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee. +33 ¶ And they departed from the mount of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them. +34 And the cloud of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ upon them by day, when they went out of the camp. +35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee. +36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, unto the many thousands of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND __when__ the people complained, it displeased the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heard __it;__ and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ burnt among them, and consumed __them__ __that__ __were__ in the uttermost parts of the camp. +2 And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the fire was quenched. +3 And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ burnt among them. +4 ¶ And the mixt multitude that __was__ among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? +5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: +6 But now our soul __is__ dried away: __there__ __is__ nothing at all, beside this manna, __before__ our eyes. +7 And the manna __was__ as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. +8 __And__ the people went about, and gathered __it__, and ground __it__ in mills, or beat __it__ in a mortar, and baked __it__ in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. +9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. +10 ¶ Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased. +11 And Moses said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? +12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? +13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. +14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because __it__ __is__ too heavy for me. +15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. +16 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. +17 And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which __is__ upon thee, and will put __it__ upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear __it__ not thyself alone. +18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for __it__ __was__ well with us in Egypt: therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. +19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; +20 __But__ even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which __is__ among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? +21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I __am__, __are__ six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. +22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? +23 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Is the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. +24 ¶ And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. +25 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that __was__ upon him, and gave __it__ unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, __that__, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. +26 But there remained two __of__ __the__ men in the camp, the name of the one __was__ Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they __were__ of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp. +27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. +28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, __one__ of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. +29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s people were prophets, __and__ that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ would put his spirit upon them! +30 And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. +31 ¶ And there went forth a wind from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and brought quails from the sea, and let __them__ fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits __high__ upon the face of the earth. +32 And the people stood up all that day, and all __that__ night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread __them__ all abroad for themselves round about the camp. +33 And while the flesh __was__ yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against the people, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smote the people with a very great plague. +34 And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted. +35 __And__ the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. +2 And they said, Hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heard __it__. +3 (Now the man Moses __was__ very meek, above all the men which __were__ upon the face of the earth.) +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood __in__ the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth. +6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, __I__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will make myself known unto him in a vision, __and__ will speak unto him in a dream. +7 My servant Moses __is__ not so, who __is__ faithful in all mine house. +8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? +9 And the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against them; and he departed. +10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam __became__ leprous, __white__ as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, __she__ __was__ leprous. +11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned. +12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. +13 And Moses cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. +14 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in __again__. +15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in __again__. +16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. +3 And Moses by the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men __were__ heads of the children of Israel. +4 And these __were__ their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. +5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. +6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. +7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. +8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun. +9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. +10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. +11 Of the tribe of Joseph, __namely__, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. +12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. +13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. +14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. +15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. +16 These __are__ the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua. +17 ¶ And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this __way__ southward, and go up into the mountain: +18 And see the land, what it __is;__ and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they __be__ strong or weak, few or many; +19 And what the land __is__ that they dwell in, whether it __be__ good or bad; and what cities __they__ __be__ that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; +20 And what the land __is__, whether it __be__ fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time __was__ the time of the firstripe grapes. +21 ¶ So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath. +22 And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, __were__. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) +23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and __they__ __brought__ of the pomegranates, and of the figs. +24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence. +25 And they returned from searching of the land after forty days. +26 ¶ And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land. +27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this __is__ the fruit of it. +28 Nevertheless the people __be__ strong that dwell in the land, and the cities __are__ walled, __and__ very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there. +29 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan. +30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. +31 But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they __are__ stronger than we. +32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, __is__ a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it __are__ men of a great stature. +33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, __which__ __come__ of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AND all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. +2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! +3 And wherefore hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? +4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. +5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. +6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, __which__ __were__ of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: +7 And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, __is__ an exceeding good land. +8 If the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. +9 Only rebel not ye against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they __are__ bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ with us: fear them not. +10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. +11 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? +12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. +13 ¶ And Moses said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Then the Egyptians shall hear __it__, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) +14 And they will tell __it__ to the inhabitants of this land: __for__ they have heard that thou $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __art__ among this people, that thou $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ art seen face to face, and __that__ thy cloud standeth over them, and __that__ thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. +15 ¶ Now __if__ thou shalt kill __all__ this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, +16 Because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. +17 And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, +18 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing __the__ __guilty__, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth __generation__. +19 Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, I have pardoned according to thy word: +21 But __as__ truly __as__ I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; +23 Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: +24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. +25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. +26 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, +27 How long __shall__ __I__ __bear__ __with__ this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. +28 Say unto them, __As__ __truly__ __as__ I live, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: +29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, +30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, __concerning__ which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. +31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. +32 But __as__ __for__ you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. +33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. +34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, __even__ forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, __even__ forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. +35 I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. +36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, +37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, __which__ __were__ of the men that went to search the land, lived __still__. +39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. +40 ¶ And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we __be__ __here__, and will go up unto the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath promised: for we have sinned. +41 And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? but it shall not prosper. +42 Go not up, for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. +43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites __are__ there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not be with you. +44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. +45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, __even__ unto Hormah. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, +3 And will make an offering by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, of the herd, or of the flock: +4 Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth __part__ of an hin of oil. +5 And the fourth __part__ of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb. +6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare __for__ a meat offering two tenth deals of flour mingled with the third __part__ of an hin of oil. +7 And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third __part__ of an hin of wine, __for__ a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 And when thou preparest a bullock __for__ a burnt offering, or __for__ a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +9 Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil. +10 And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, __for__ an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid. +12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number. +13 All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever __be__ among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; as ye do, so he shall do. +15 One ordinance __shall__ __be__ __both__ for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth __with__ __you__, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye __are__, so shall the stranger be before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. +17 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you, +19 Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough __for__ an heave offering: as __ye__ __do__ the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it. +21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ an heave offering in your generations. +22 ¶ And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken unto Moses, +23 __Even__ all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded __Moses__, and henceforward among your generations; +24 Then it shall be, if __ought__ be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. +25 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them; for it __is__ ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and their sin offering before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for their ignorance: +26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people __were__ in ignorance. +27 ¶ And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering. +28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. +29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, __both__ __for__ him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. +30 ¶ But the soul that doeth __ought__ presumptuously, __whether__ __he__ __be__ born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. +31 Because he hath despised the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity __shall__ __be__ upon him. +32 ¶ And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. +33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. +34 And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. +35 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. +36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +37 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: +39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: +40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. +41 I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 NOW Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took __men:__ +2 And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: +3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, __Ye__ __take__ too much upon you, seeing all the congregation __are__ holy, every one of them, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +4 And when Moses heard __it__, he fell upon his face: +5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will shew who __are__ his, and __who__ __is__ holy; and will cause __him__ to come near unto him: even __him__ whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him. +6 This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company; +7 And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to morrow: and it shall be __that__ the man whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doth choose, he __shall__ __be__ holy: __ye__ __take__ too much upon you, ye sons of Levi. +8 And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi: +9 __Seemeth__ __it__ __but__ a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them? +10 And he hath brought thee near __to__ __him__, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also? +11 For which cause __both__ thou and all thy company __are__ gathered together against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and what __is__ Aaron, that ye murmur against him? +12 ¶ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up: +13 __Is__ __it__ a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us? +14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up. +15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. +16 And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow: +17 And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each __of__ __you__ his censer. +18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron. +19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto all the congregation. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, +21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. +22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? +23 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +24 Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. +25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. +26 And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. +27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children. +28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sent me to do all these works; for __I__ __have__ not __done__ __them__ of mine own mind. +29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; __then__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not sent me. +30 But if the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that __appertain__ unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 ¶ And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that __was__ under them: +32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that __appertained__ unto Korah, and all __their__ goods. +33 They, and all that __appertained__ to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. +34 And all Israel that __were__ round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up __also__. +35 And there came out a fire from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. +36 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed. +38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates __for__ a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. +39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad __plates__ __for__ a covering of the altar: +40 __To__ __be__ a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which __is__ not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to him by the hand of Moses. +41 ¶ But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared. +43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation. +44 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces. +46 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; the plague is begun. +47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. +48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed. +49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah. +50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the plague was stayed. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of __their__ fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod. +3 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod __shall__ __be__ for the head of the house of their fathers. +4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you. +5 And it shall come to pass, __that__ the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you. +6 ¶ And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, __even__ twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron __was__ among their rods. +7 And Moses laid up the rods before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the tabernacle of witness. +8 And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds. +9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod. +10 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not. +11 And Moses did __so:__ as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded him, so did he. +12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. +13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall die: shall we be consumed with dying? +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. +2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee __shall__ __minister__ before the tabernacle of witness. +3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. +4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. +5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. +6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you __they__ __are__ given __as__ a gift for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. +7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office __unto__ __you__ __as__ a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. +8 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. +9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, __reserved__ from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, __shall__ __be__ most holy for thee and for thy sons. +10 In the most holy __place__ shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee. +11 And this __is__ thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. +12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, them have I given thee. +13 __And__ whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat __of__ it. +14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. +15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __whether__ __it__ __be__ of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. +16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which __is__ twenty gerahs. +17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they __are__ holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat __for__ an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. +19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it __is__ a covenant of salt for ever before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto thee and to thy seed with thee. +20 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I __am__ thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. +21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, __even__ the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. +22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. +23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: __it__ __shall__ __be__ a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. +24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer __as__ an heave offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. +25 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ a tenth __part__ of the tithe. +27 And __this__ your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though __it__ __were__ the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. +28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s heave offering to Aaron the priest. +29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, of all the best thereof, __even__ the hallowed part thereof out of it. +30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress. +31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it __is__ your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. +32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, +2 This __is__ the ordinance of the law which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein __is__ no blemish, __and__ upon which never came yoke: +3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and __one__ shall slay her before his face: +4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation seven times: +5 And __one__ shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn: +6 And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast __it__ into the midst of the burning of the heifer. +7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. +8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. +9 And a man __that__ __is__ clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay __them__ up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it __is__ a purification for sin. +10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. +11 ¶ He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. +12 He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean. +13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness __is__ yet upon him. +14 This __is__ the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that __is__ in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. +15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, __is__ unclean. +16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. +17 And for an unclean __person__ they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel: +18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip __it__ in the water, and sprinkle __it__ upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave: +19 And the clean __person__ shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. +20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he __is__ unclean. +21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even. +22 And whatsoever the unclean __person__ toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth __it__ shall be unclean until even. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 THEN came the children of Israel, __even__ the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. +2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. +3 And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$! +4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? +5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it __is__ no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither __is__ there any water to drink. +6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto them. +7 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +8 Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink. +9 And Moses took the rod from before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as he commanded him. +10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? +11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts __also__. +12 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. +13 This __is__ the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he was sanctified in them. +14 ¶ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: +15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: +16 And when we cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we __are__ in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: +17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink __of__ the water of the wells: we will go by the king's __high__ way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders. +18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword. +19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without __doing__ any thing __else__, go through on my feet. +20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. +21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him. +22 ¶ And the children of Israel, __even__ the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor. +23 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying, +24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah. +25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor: +26 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered __unto__ __his__ __people__, and shall die there. +27 And Moses did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. +28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. +29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, __even__ all the house of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND __when__ king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took __some__ of them prisoners. +2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. +3 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah. +4 ¶ And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. +5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for __there__ __is__ no bread, neither __is__ __there__ __any__ water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. +6 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. +7 ¶ Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and against thee; pray unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. +8 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. +9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. +10 ¶ And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth. +11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which __is__ before Moab, toward the sunrising. +12 ¶ From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared. +13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which __is__ in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon __is__ the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. +14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon, +15 And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab. +16 And from thence __they__ __went__ to Beer: that __is__ the well whereof the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. +17 ¶ Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it: +18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by __the__ __direction__ __of__ the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness __they__ __went__ to Mattanah: +19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth: +20 And from Bamoth __in__ the valley, that __is__ in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon. +21 ¶ And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, +22 Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink __of__ the waters of the well: __but__ we will go along by the king's __high__ way, until we be past thy borders. +23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel. +24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon __was__ strong. +25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof. +26 For Heshbon __was__ the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. +27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: +28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, __and__ the lords of the high places of Arnon. +29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites. +30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which __reacheth__ unto Medeba. +31 ¶ Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. +32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that __were__ there. +33 ¶ And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. +34 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. +35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 AND the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan __by__ Jericho. +2 ¶ And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. +3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they __were__ many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. +4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all __that__ __are__ round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor __was__ king of the Moabites at that time. +5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which __is__ by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: +6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they __are__ too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, __that__ we may smite them, and __that__ I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest __is__ blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed. +7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. +8 And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. +9 And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men __are__ these with thee? +10 And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, __saying__, +11 Behold, __there__ __is__ a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out. +12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they __are__ blessed. +13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ refuseth to give me leave to go with you. +14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us. +15 ¶ And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. +16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: +17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people. +18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, to do less or more. +19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will say unto me more. +20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, __and__ go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do. +21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. +22 ¶ And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants __were__ with him. +23 And the ass saw the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way. +24 But the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall __being__ on this side, and a wall on that side. +25 And when the ass saw the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again. +26 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went further, and stood in a narrow place, where __was__ no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. +27 And when the ass saw the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. +28 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? +29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. +30 And the ass said unto Balaam, __Am__ not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since __I__ __was__ thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay. +31 Then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face. +32 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because __thy__ way is perverse before me: +33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive. +34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again. +35 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. +36 ¶ And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto a city of Moab, which __is__ in the border of Arnon, which __is__ in the utmost coast. +37 And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour? +38 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak. +39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjath-huzoth. +40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that __were__ with him. +41 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost __part__ of the people. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 AND Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. +2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on __every__ altar a bullock and a ram. +3 And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place. +4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon __every__ altar a bullock and a ram. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. +6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. +7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, __saying__, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel. +8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, __whom__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not defied? +9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. +10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth __part__ of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! +11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed __them__ altogether. +12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath put in my mouth? +13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence. +14 ¶ And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on __every__ altar. +15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ yonder. +16 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus. +17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spoken? +18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor: +19 God __is__ not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do __it?__ or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? +20 Behold, I have received __commandment__ to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. +21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God __is__ with him, and the shout of a king __is__ among them. +22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. +23 Surely __there__ __is__ no enchantment against Jacob, neither __is__ __there__ any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought! +24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat __of__ the prey, and drink the blood of the slain. +25 ¶ And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all. +26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ speaketh, that I must do? +27 ¶ And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. +28 And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon. +29 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. +30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on __every__ altar. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AND when Balaam saw that it pleased the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. +2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding __in__ __his__ __tents__ according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him. +3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: +4 He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling __into__ __a__ __trance__, but having his eyes open: +5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, __and__ thy tabernacles, O Israel! +6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath planted, __and__ as cedar trees beside the waters. +7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed __shall__ __be__ in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted. +8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce __them__ through with his arrows. +9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed __is__ he that blesseth thee, and cursed __is__ he that curseth thee. +10 ¶ And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed __them__ these three times. +11 Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath kept thee back from honour. +12 And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying, +13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to do __either__ good or bad of mine own mind; __but__ what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saith, that will I speak? +14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come __therefore__, __and__ I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days. +15 ¶ And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: +16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, __which__ saw the vision of the Almighty, falling __into__ __a__ __trance__, but having his eyes open: +17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. +18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly. +19 Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city. +20 ¶ And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek __was__ the first of the nations; but his latter end __shall__ __be__ that he perish for ever. +21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. +22 Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. +23 And he took up his parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God doeth this! +24 And ships __shall__ __come__ from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever. +25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 AND Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. +2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. +3 And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against Israel. +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ against the sun, that the fierce anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ may be turned away from Israel. +5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal-peor. +6 ¶ And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who __were__ weeping __before__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw __it__, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; +8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. +9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. +10 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. +12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: +13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, __even__ the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. +14 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, __even__ that was slain with the Midianitish woman, __was__ Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites. +15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain __was__ Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he __was__ head over a people, __and__ of a chief house in Midian. +16 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +17 Vex the Midianites, and smite them: +18 For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 AND it came to pass after the plague, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, +2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel. +3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan __near__ Jericho, saying, +4 __Take__ __the__ __sum__ __of__ __the__ __people__, from twenty years old and upward; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt. +5 ¶ Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, __of__ __whom__ __cometh__ the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: +6 Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. +7 These __are__ the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. +8 And the sons of Pallu; Eliab. +9 And the sons of Eliab; Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This __is__ __that__ Dathan and Abiram, __which__ __were__ famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +10 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign. +11 Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not. +12 ¶ The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites: +13 Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. +14 These __are__ the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred. +15 ¶ The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: +16 Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites: +17 Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites. +18 These __are__ the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred. +19 ¶ The sons of Judah __were__ Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. +20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. +21 And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. +22 These __are__ the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred. +23 ¶ __Of__ the sons of Issachar after their families: __of__ Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites: +24 Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. +25 These __are__ the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred. +26 ¶ __Of__ the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. +27 These __are__ the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred. +28 ¶ The sons of Joseph after their families __were__ Manasseh and Ephraim. +29 Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead __come__ the family of the Gileadites. +30 These __are__ the sons of Gilead: __of__ Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: +31 And __of__ Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and __of__ Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: +32 And __of__ Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and __of__ Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. +33 ¶ And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad __were__ Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. +34 These __are__ the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred. +35 ¶ These __are__ the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. +36 And these __are__ the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. +37 These __are__ the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These __are__ the sons of Joseph after their families. +38 ¶ The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: +39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. +40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: __of__ __Ard__, the family of the Ardites: __and__ of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. +41 These __are__ the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them __were__ forty and five thousand and six hundred. +42 ¶ These __are__ the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These __are__ the families of Dan after their families. +43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, __were__ threescore and four thousand and four hundred. +44 ¶ __Of__ the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. +45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. +46 And the name of the daughter of Asher __was__ Sarah. +47 These __are__ the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; __who__ __were__ fifty and three thousand and four hundred. +48 ¶ __Of__ the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites: +49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. +50 These __are__ the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them __were__ forty and five thousand and four hundred. +51 These __were__ the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. +52 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. +54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him. +55 Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. +56 According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few. +57 ¶ And these __are__ they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. +58 These __are__ the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram. +59 And the name of Amram's wife __was__ Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom __her__ __mother__ bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. +60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. +61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. +63 ¶ These __are__ they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan __near__ Jericho. +64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. +65 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 THEN came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these __are__ the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. +2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, __by__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, +3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons. +4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us __therefore__ a possession among the brethren of our father. +5 And Moses brought their cause before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them. +8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter. +9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. +10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren. +11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +12 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. +13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered. +14 For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that __is__ the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. +15 ¶ And Moses spake unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +16 Let the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, +17 Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be not as sheep which have no shepherd. +18 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom __is__ the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; +19 And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. +20 And thou shalt put __some__ of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient. +21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask __counsel__ for him after the judgment of Urim before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, __both__ he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation. +22 And Moses did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: +23 And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded by the hand of Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, __and__ my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, __for__ a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season. +3 And thou shalt say unto them, This __is__ the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, __for__ a continual burnt offering. +4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; +5 And a tenth __part__ of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth __part__ of an hin of beaten oil. +6 __It__ __is__ a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 And the drink offering thereof __shall__ __be__ the fourth __part__ of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy __place__ shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __for__ a drink offering. +8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer __it__, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 ¶ And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour __for__ a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof: +10 __This__ __is__ the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering. +11 ¶ And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot; +12 And three tenth deals of flour __for__ a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour __for__ a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram; +13 And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil __for__ a meat offering unto one lamb; __for__ a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third __part__ of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth __part__ of an hin unto a lamb: this __is__ the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. +15 And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering. +16 And in the fourteenth day of the first month __is__ the passover of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 And in the fifteenth day of this month __is__ the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. +18 In the first day __shall__ __be__ an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work __therein:__ +19 But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire __for__ a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish: +20 And their meat offering __shall__ __be__ __of__ flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram; +21 A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: +22 And one goat __for__ a sin offering, to make an atonement for you. +23 Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which __is__ for a continual burnt offering. +24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering. +25 And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work. +26 ¶ Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, after your weeks __be__ __out__, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: +27 But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; +28 And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram, +29 A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs; +30 __And__ one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you. +31 Ye shall offer __them__ beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 AND in the seventh month, on the first __day__ of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. +2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; one young bullock, one ram, __and__ seven lambs of the first year without blemish: +3 And their meat offering __shall__ __be__ __of__ flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, __and__ two tenth deals for a ram, +4 And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: +5 And one kid of the goats __for__ a sin offering, to make an atonement for you: +6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 ¶ And ye shall have on the tenth __day__ of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work __therein:__ +8 But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __for__ a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, __and__ seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish: +9 And their meat offering __shall__ __be__ __of__ flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, __and__ two tenth deals to one ram, +10 A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: +11 One kid of the goats __for__ a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings. +12 ¶ And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ seven days: +13 And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, __and__ fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish: +14 And their meat offering __shall__ __be__ __of__ flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams, +15 And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs: +16 And one kid of the goats __for__ a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. +17 ¶ And on the second day __ye__ __shall__ __offer__ twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot: +18 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, __shall__ __be__ according to their number, after the manner: +19 And one kid of the goats __for__ a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings. +20 ¶ And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish; +21 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, __shall__ __be__ according to their number, after the manner: +22 And one goat __for__ a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. +23 ¶ And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, __and__ fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: +24 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, __shall__ __be__ according to their number, after the manner: +25 And one kid of the goats __for__ a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. +26 ¶ And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, __and__ fourteen lambs of the first year without spot: +27 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, __shall__ __be__ according to their number, after the manner: +28 And one goat __for__ a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. +29 ¶ And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, __and__ fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: +30 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, __shall__ __be__ according to their number, after the manner: +31 And one goat __for__ a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. +32 ¶ And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, __and__ fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: +33 And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, __shall__ __be__ according to their number, after the manner: +34 And one goat __for__ a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering. +35 ¶ On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work __therein:__ +36 But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish: +37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, __shall__ __be__ according to their number, after the manner: +38 And one goat __for__ a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. +39 These __things__ ye shall do unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings. +40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 AND Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This __is__ the thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded. +2 If a man vow a vow unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. +3 If a woman also vow a vow unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and bind __herself__ by a bond, __being__ in her father's house in her youth; +4 And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. +5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her. +6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul; +7 And her husband heard __it__, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard __it:__ then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. +8 But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard __it;__ then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall forgive her. +9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her. +10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; +11 And her husband heard __it__, and held his peace at her, __and__ disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. +12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard __them;__ __then__ whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall forgive her. +13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. +14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which __are__ upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard __them__. +15 But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard __them;__ then he shall bear her iniquity. +16 These __are__ the statutes, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, __being__ __yet__ in her youth in her father's house. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. +3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of Midian. +4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war. +5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of __every__ tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. +6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of __every__ tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand. +7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. +8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; __namely__, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword. +9 And the children of Israel took __all__ the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. +10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. +11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, __both__ of men and of beasts. +12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which __are__ by Jordan __near__ Jericho. +13 ¶ And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. +14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, __with__ the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. +15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? +16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. +18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. +19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify __both__ yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day. +20 And purify all __your__ raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' __hair__, and all things made of wood. +21 ¶ And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This __is__ the ordinance of the law which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses; +22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, +23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make __it__ go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water. +24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp. +25 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, __both__ of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation: +27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation: +28 And levy a tribute unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, __both__ of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: +29 Take __it__ of their half, and give __it__ unto Eleazar the priest, __for__ an heave offering of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +32 And the booty, __being__ the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, +33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, +34 And threescore and one thousand asses, +35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him. +36 And the half, __which__ __was__ the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep: +37 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen. +38 And the beeves __were__ thirty and six thousand; of which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s tribute __was__ threescore and twelve. +39 And the asses __were__ thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s tribute __was__ threescore and one. +40 And the persons __were__ sixteen thousand; of which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s tribute __was__ thirty and two persons. +41 And Moses gave the tribute, __which__ __was__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred, +43 (Now the half __that__ __pertained__ __unto__ the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand __and__ seven thousand and five hundred sheep, +44 And thirty and six thousand beeves, +45 And thirty thousand asses and five hundred, +46 And sixteen thousand persons;) +47 Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, __both__ of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +48 ¶ And the officers which __were__ over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses: +49 And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which __are__ under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. +50 We have therefore brought an oblation for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, __even__ all wrought jewels. +52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. +53 (__For__ the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) +54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, __for__ a memorial for the children of Israel before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +1 NOW the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place __was__ a place for cattle; +2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, +3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon, +4 __Even__ the country which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smote before the congregation of Israel, __is__ a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle: +5 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, __and__ bring us not over Jordan. +6 ¶ And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? +7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given them? +8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. +9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had given them. +10 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying, +11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: +12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, was consumed. +14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ toward Israel. +15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people. +16 ¶ And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: +17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land. +18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. +19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward. +20 ¶ And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to war, +21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him, +22 And the land be subdued before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and be sure your sin will find you out. +24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth. +25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. +26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead: +27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to battle, as my lord saith. +28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: +29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: +30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. +31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. +32 We will pass over armed before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan __may__ __be__ ours. +33 And Moses gave unto them, __even__ to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, __even__ the cities of the country round about. +34 ¶ And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, +35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah, +36 And Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep. +37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim, +38 And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded. +39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which __was__ in it. +40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. +41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair. +42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 THESE __are__ the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. +2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and these __are__ their journeys according to their goings out. +3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. +4 For the Egyptians buried all __their__ firstborn, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had smitten among them: upon their gods also the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ executed judgments. +5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. +6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which __is__ in the edge of the wilderness. +7 And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which __is__ before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol. +8 And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. +9 And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim __were__ twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there. +10 And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. +11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. +12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. +13 And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. +14 And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. +15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai. +16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah. +17 And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth. +18 And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah. +19 And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez. +20 And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah. +21 And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. +22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah. +23 And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher. +24 And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah. +25 And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth. +26 And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath. +27 And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah. +28 And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah. +29 And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah. +30 And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth. +31 And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan. +32 And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad. +33 And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah. +34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah. +35 And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber. +36 And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which __is__ Kadesh. +37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. +38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first __day__ of the fifth month. +39 And Aaron __was__ an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor. +40 And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. +41 And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. +42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon. +43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth. +44 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab. +45 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad. +46 And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim. +47 And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. +48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan __near__ Jericho. +49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth __even__ unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab. +50 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan __near__ Jericho, saying, +51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; +52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: +53 And ye shall dispossess __the__ __inhabitants__ __of__ the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. +54 And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: __and__ to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's __inheritance__ shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit. +55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them __shall__ __be__ pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. +56 Moreover it shall come to pass, __that__ I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan; (this __is__ the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, __even__ the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) +3 Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward: +4 And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass on to Azmon: +5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. +6 And __as__ __for__ the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. +7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor: +8 From mount Hor ye shall point out __your__ __border__ unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: +9 ¶ And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border. +10 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham: +11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward: +12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about. +13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This __is__ the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe: +14 For the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of their fathers, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers, have received __their__ __inheritance;__ and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance: +15 The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan __near__ Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising. +16 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +17 These __are__ the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. +18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance. +19 And the names of the men __are__ these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. +20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. +21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. +22 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli. +23 The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod. +24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. +25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. +26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan. +27 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. +28 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. +29 These __are__ __they__ whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan. +:::SET CHAPTER 35 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan __near__ Jericho, saying, +2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give __also__ unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. +3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts. +4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, __shall__ __reach__ from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. +5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city __shall__ __be__ in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. +6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites __there__ __shall__ __be__ six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities. +7 __So__ all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites __shall__ __be__ forty and eight cities: them __shall__ __ye__ __give__ with their suburbs. +8 And the cities which ye shall give __shall__ __be__ of the possession of the children of Israel: from __them__ __that__ __have__ many ye shall give many; but from __them__ __that__ __have__ few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth. +9 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses, saying, +10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan; +11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares. +12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment. +13 And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge. +14 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, __which__ shall be cities of refuge. +15 These six cities shall be a refuge, __both__ for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither. +16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he __is__ a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. +17 And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he __is__ a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. +18 Or __if__ he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he __is__ a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. +19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. +20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die; +21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote __him__ shall surely be put to death; __for__ he __is__ a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him. +22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait, +23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing __him__ not, and cast __it__ upon him, that he die, and __was__ not his enemy, neither sought his harm: +24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments: +25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil. +26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled; +27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood: +28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession. +29 So these __things__ shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. +30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person __to__ __cause__ __him__ to die. +31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which __is__ guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. +32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. +33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye __are:__ for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. +34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ dwell among the children of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 36 +1 AND the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel: +2 And they said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. +3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the __other__ tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance. +4 And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. +5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well. +6 This __is__ the thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry. +7 So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. +8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. +9 Neither shall the inheritance remove from __one__ tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance. +10 Even as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad: +11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons: +12 __And__ they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. +13 These __are__ the commandments and the judgments, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan __near__ Jericho. +:::SET BOOK Deuteronomy +:::SET TITLE The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THESE __be__ the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red __sea__, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. +2 (__There__ __are__ eleven days' __journey__ from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.) +3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first __day__ of the month, __that__ Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had given him in commandment unto them; +4 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei: +5 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying, +6 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: +7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all __the__ __places__ nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. +8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them. +9 ¶ And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: +10 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye __are__ this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. +11 (The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye __are__, and bless you, as he hath promised you!) +12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? +13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. +14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken __is__ good __for__ __us__ to do. +15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes. +16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear __the__ __causes__ between your brethren, and judge righteously between __every__ man and his brother, and the stranger __that__ __is__ with him. +17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; __but__ ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment __is__ God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring __it__ unto me, and I will hear it. +18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. +19 ¶ And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. +20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God doth give unto us. +21 Behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath set the land before thee: go up __and__ possess __it__, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. +22 ¶ And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. +23 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe: +24 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out. +25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought __it__ down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, __It__ __is__ a good land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God doth give us. +26 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God: +27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. +28 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people __is__ greater and taller than we; the cities __are__ great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. +29 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them. +30 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes; +31 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. +32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, +33 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents __in__, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. +34 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, +35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers, +36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +37 Also the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither. +38 __But__ Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. +39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. +40 But __as__ __for__ you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. +41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, we will go up and fight, according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill. +42 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I __am__ not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. +43 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and went presumptuously up into the hill. +44 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, __even__ unto Hormah. +45 And ye returned and wept before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. +46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode __there__. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THEN we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto me, saying, +3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. +4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye __are__ to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: +5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau __for__ a possession. +6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. +7 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __hath__ __been__ with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. +8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. +9 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land __for__ a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot __for__ a possession. +10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; +11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. +12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave unto them. +13 Now rise up, __said__ __I__, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. +14 And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, __was__ thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto them. +15 For indeed the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. +16 ¶ So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, +17 That the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto me, saying, +18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: +19 And __when__ thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon __any__ possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot __for__ a possession. +20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; +21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: +22 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day: +23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, __even__ unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) +24 ¶ Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess __it__, and contend with him in battle. +25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations __that__ __are__ under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. +26 ¶ And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, +27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. +28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet; +29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God giveth us. +30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as __appeareth__ this day. +31 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. +32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. +33 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. +34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: +35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took. +36 From Aroer, which __is__ by the brink of the river of Arnon, and __from__ the city that __is__ by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God delivered all unto us: +37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, __nor__ unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God forbad us. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THEN we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. +3 So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. +4 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. +5 All these cities __were__ fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. +6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city. +7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. +8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that __was__ on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon; +9 (__Which__ Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) +10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. +11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead __was__ a bedstead of iron; __is__ it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits __was__ the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man. +12 And this land, __which__ we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which __is__ by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. +13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, __being__ the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants. +14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, unto this day. +15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. +16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, __which__ __is__ the border of the children of Ammon; +17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast __thereof__, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, __even__ the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward. +18 ¶ And I commanded you at that time, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all __that__ __are__ meet for the war. +19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (__for__ I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you; +20 Until the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you, and __until__ they also possess the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath given them beyond Jordan: and __then__ shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you. +21 ¶ And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. +22 Ye shall not fear them: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God he shall fight for you. +23 And I besought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ at that time, saying, +24 O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God __is__ __there__ in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? +25 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that __is__ beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. +26 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter. +27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold __it__ with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. +28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. +29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 NOW therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do __them__, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers giveth you. +2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish __ought__ from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God which I command you. +3 Your eyes have seen what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath destroyed them from among you. +4 But ye that did cleave unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God __are__ alive every one of you this day. +5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. +6 Keep therefore and do __them;__ for this __is__ your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation __is__ a wise and understanding people. +7 For what nation __is__ __there__ __so__ great, who __hath__ God __so__ nigh unto them, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God __is__ in all __things__ __that__ we call upon him __for?__ +8 And what nation __is__ __there__ __so__ great, that hath statutes and judgments __so__ righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? +9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; +10 __Specially__ the day that thou stoodest before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in Horeb, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and __that__ they may teach their children. +11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. +12 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only __ye__ __heard__ a voice. +13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, __even__ ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. +14 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. +15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: +16 Lest ye corrupt __yourselves__, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, +17 The likeness of any beast that __is__ on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, +18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that __is__ in the waters beneath the earth: +19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, __even__ all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. +20 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, __even__ out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as __ye__ __are__ this day. +21 Furthermore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee __for__ an inheritance: +22 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land. +23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, __or__ the likeness of any __thing__, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath forbidden thee. +24 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __is__ a consuming fire, __even__ a jealous God. +25 ¶ When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt __yourselves__, and make a graven image, __or__ the likeness of any __thing__, and shall do evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to provoke him to anger: +26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong __your__ days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. +27 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall lead you. +28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. +29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, thou shalt find __him__, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. +30 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, __even__ in the latter days, if thou turn to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; +31 (For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __is__ a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them. +32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and __ask__ from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been __any__ __such__ __thing__ as this great thing __is__, or hath been heard like it? +33 Did __ever__ people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? +34 Or hath God assayed to go __and__ take him a nation from the midst of __another__ nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? +35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ he __is__ God; __there__ __is__ none else beside him. +36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. +37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; +38 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou __art__, to bring thee in, to give thee their land __for__ an inheritance, as __it__ __is__ this day. +39 Know therefore this day, and consider __it__ in thine heart, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ he __is__ God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: __there__ __is__ none else. +40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong __thy__ days upon the earth, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, for ever. +41 ¶ Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; +42 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: +43 __Namely__, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites. +44 ¶ And this __is__ the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: +45 These __are__ the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt, +46 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt: +47 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which __were__ on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; +48 From Aroer, which __is__ by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which __is__ Hermon, +49 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, __even__ us, who __are__ all of us here alive this day. +4 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, +5 (I stood between the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ and you at that time, to shew you the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying, +6 ¶ I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. +7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. +8 Thou shalt not make thee __any__ graven image, __or__ any likeness __of__ __any__ __thing__ that __is__ in heaven above, or that __is__ in the earth beneath, or that __is__ in the waters beneath the earth: +9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __am__ a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth __generation__ of them that hate me, +10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. +11 Thou shalt not take the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in vain: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not hold __him__ guiltless that taketh his name in vain. +12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath commanded thee. +13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: +14 But the seventh day __is__ the sabbath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: __in__ __it__ thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that __is__ within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. +15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. +16 ¶ Honour thy father and thy mother, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee. +17 Thou shalt not kill. +18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery. +19 Neither shalt thou steal. +20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. +21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any __thing__ that __is__ thy neighbour's. +22 ¶ These words the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. +23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, __even__ all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; +24 And ye said, Behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. +25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God any more, then we shall die. +26 For who __is__ __there__ __of__ all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we __have__, and lived? +27 Go thou near, and hear all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear __it__, and do __it__. +28 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken. +29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! +30 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again. +31 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do __them__ in the land which I give them to possess it. +32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. +33 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and __that__ __it__ __may__ __be__ well with you, and __that__ ye may prolong __your__ days in the land which ye shall possess. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 NOW these __are__ the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do __them__ in the land whither ye go to possess it: +2 That thou mightest fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. +3 ¶ Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do __it;__ that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. +4 Hear, O Israel: The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God __is__ one $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +5 And thou shalt love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. +6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: +7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. +8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. +9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. +10 And it shall be, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, +11 And houses full of all good __things__, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full; +12 __Then__ beware lest thou forget the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. +13 Thou shalt fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. +14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which __are__ round about you; +15 (For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __is__ a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. +16 ¶ Ye shall not tempt the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, as ye tempted __him__ in Massah. +17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. +18 And thou shalt do __that__ __which__ __is__ right and good in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto thy fathers, +19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken. +20 __And__ when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What __mean__ the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God hath commanded you? +21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: +22 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: +23 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. +24 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as __it__ __is__ at this day. +25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, as he hath commanded us. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 WHEN the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; +2 And when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, __and__ utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: +3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. +4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. +5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. +6 For thou __art__ an holy people unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that __are__ upon the face of the earth. +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye __were__ the fewest of all people: +8 But because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. +9 Know therefore that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, he __is__ God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; +10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. +11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. +12 ¶ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: +13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. +14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all __them__ that hate thee. +16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that __will__ __be__ a snare unto thee. +17 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations __are__ more than I; how can I dispossess them? +18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: __but__ shalt well remember what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; +19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God brought thee out: so shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. +20 Moreover the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed. +21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __is__ among you, a mighty God and terrible. +22 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. +23 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. +24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. +25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold __that__ __is__ on them, nor take __it__ unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it __is__ an abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +26 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: __but__ thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it __is__ a cursed thing. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 ALL the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto your fathers. +2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, __and__ to prove thee, to know what __was__ in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. +3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every __word__ that proceedeth out of the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doth man live. +4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. +5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, __so__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God chasteneth thee. +6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. +7 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; +8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; +9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any __thing__ in it; a land whose stones __are__ iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. +10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. +11 Beware that thou forget not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: +12 Lest __when__ thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt __therein;__ +13 And __when__ thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; +14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; +15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, __wherein__ __were__ fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where __there__ __was__ no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; +16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; +17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of __mine__ hand hath gotten me this wealth. +18 But thou shalt remember the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: for __it__ __is__ he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as __it__ __is__ this day. +19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. +20 As the nations which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 HEAR, O Israel: Thou __art__ to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, +2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and __of__ __whom__ thou hast heard __say__, Who can stand before the children of Anak! +3 Understand therefore this day, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __is__ he which goeth over before thee; __as__ a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said unto thee. +4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doth drive them out from before thee. +5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. +6 Understand therefore, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou __art__ a stiffnecked people. +7 ¶ Remember, __and__ forget not, how thou provokedst the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to wrath, so that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was angry with you to have destroyed you. +9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, __even__ the tables of the covenant which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: +10 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them __was__ __written__ according to all the words, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. +11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave me the two tables of stone, __even__ the tables of the covenant. +12 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted __themselves;__ they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image. +13 Furthermore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it __is__ a stiffnecked people: +14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. +15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant __were__ in my two hands. +16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, __and__ had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded you. +17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. +18 And I fell down before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to provoke him to anger. +19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was wroth against you to destroy you. But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hearkened unto me at that time also. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. +21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, __and__ ground __it__ very small, __even__ until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. +22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to wrath. +23 Likewise when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. +24 Ye have been rebellious against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from the day that I knew you. +25 Thus I fell down before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ forty days and forty nights, as I fell down __at__ __the__ __first;__ because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said he would destroy you. +26 I prayed therefore unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. +27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin: +28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. +29 Yet they __are__ thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AT that time the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. +2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. +3 And I made an ark __of__ shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. +4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave them unto me. +5 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded me. +6 ¶ And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. +7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. +8 ¶ At that time the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to stand before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day. +9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ his inheritance, according as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God promised him. +10 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hearkened unto me at that time also, __and__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ would not destroy thee. +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Arise, take __thy__ journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. +12 ¶ And now, Israel, what doth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God require of thee, but to fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, +13 To keep the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? +14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s thy God, the earth __also__, with all that therein __is__. +15 Only the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, __even__ you above all people, as __it__ __is__ this day. +16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. +17 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God __is__ God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: +18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. +19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. +20 Thou shalt fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. +21 He __is__ thy praise, and he __is__ thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen. +22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 THEREFORE thou shalt love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. +2 And know ye this day: for __I__ __speak__ not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, +3 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; +4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and __how__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath destroyed them unto this day; +5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; +6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that __was__ in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: +7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which he did. +8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; +9 And that ye may prolong __your__ days in the land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. +10 ¶ For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, __is__ not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst __it__ with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: +11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, __is__ a land of hills and valleys, __and__ drinketh water of the rain of heaven: +12 A land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God careth for: the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __are__ always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. +13 ¶ And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, +14 That I will give __you__ the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. +15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. +16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; +17 And __then__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and __lest__ ye perish quickly from off the good land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ giveth you. +18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. +19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. +20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: +21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. +22 ¶ For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; +23 Then will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. +24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. +25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: __for__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. +26 ¶ Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; +27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which I command you this day: +28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. +29 And it shall come to pass, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. +30 __Are__ they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? +31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. +32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 THESE __are__ the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. +2 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: +3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. +4 Ye shall not do so unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +5 But unto the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, __even__ unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: +6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: +7 And there ye shall eat before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath blessed thee. +8 Ye shall not do after all __the__ __things__ that we do here this day, every man whatsoever __is__ right in his own eyes. +9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God giveth you. +10 But __when__ ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God giveth you to inherit, and __when__ he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; +11 Then there shall be a place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +12 And ye shall rejoice before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that __is__ within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you. +13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest: +14 But in the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. +15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. +16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water. +17 ¶ Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand: +18 But thou must eat them before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that __is__ within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto. +19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. +20 ¶ When the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. +21 If the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. +22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat __of__ them alike. +23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood __is__ the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. +24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water. +25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do __that__ __which__ __is__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall choose: +27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. +28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest __that__ __which__ __is__ good and right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +29 ¶ When the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; +30 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. +31 Thou shalt not do so unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: for every abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. +32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, +2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; +3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God with all your heart and with all your soul. +4 Ye shall walk after the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. +5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn __you__ away from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. +6 ¶ If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which __is__ as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; +7 __Namely__, of the gods of the people which __are__ round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the __one__ end of the earth even unto the __other__ end of the earth; +8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: +9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. +10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. +11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. +12 ¶ If thou shalt hear __say__ in one of thy cities, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, +13 __Certain__ men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; +14 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, __if__ __it__ __be__ truth, __and__ the thing certain, __that__ such abomination is wrought among you; +15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that __is__ therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. +16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. +17 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; +18 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do __that__ __which__ __is__ right in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 YE __are__ the children of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. +2 For thou __art__ an holy people unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that __are__ upon the earth. +3 ¶ Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. +4 These __are__ the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, +5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. +6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, __and__ cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. +7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; __as__ the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; __therefore__ they __are__ unclean unto you. +8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it __is__ unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase. +9 ¶ These ye shall eat of all that __are__ in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat: +10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it __is__ unclean unto you. +11 ¶ __Of__ all clean birds ye shall eat. +12 But these __are__ __they__ of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, +13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind, +14 And every raven after his kind, +15 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, +16 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, +17 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, +18 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. +19 And every creeping thing that flieth __is__ unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. +20 __But__ __of__ all clean fowls ye may eat. +21 ¶ Ye shall not eat __of__ any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that __is__ in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou __art__ an holy people unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. +22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year. +23 And thou shalt eat before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God always. +24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; __or__ if the place be too far from thee, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath blessed thee: +25 Then shalt thou turn __it__ into money, and bind up the money in thine hand, and shalt go unto the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall choose: +26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household, +27 And the Levite that __is__ within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee. +28 ¶ At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay __it__ up within thy gates: +29 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which __are__ within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AT the end of __every__ seven years thou shalt make a release. +2 And this __is__ the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth __ought__ unto his neighbour shall release __it;__ he shall not exact __it__ of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s release. +3 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact __it__ __again:__ but __that__ which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release; +4 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall greatly bless thee in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee __for__ an inheritance to possess it: +5 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day. +6 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee. +7 ¶ If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: +8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, __in__ __that__ which he wanteth. +9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ against thee, and it be sin unto thee. +10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto. +11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. +12 ¶ __And__ if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. +13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: +14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: __of__ __that__ wherewith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. +15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. +16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; +17 Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust __it__ through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. +18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant __to__ __thee__, in serving thee six years: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. +19 ¶ All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. +20 Thou shalt eat __it__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God year by year in the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall choose, thou and thy household. +21 And if there be __any__ blemish therein, __as__ __if__ __it__ __be__ lame, or blind, __or__ __have__ any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean __person__ __shall__ __eat__ __it__ alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart. +23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 OBSERVE the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: for in the month of Abib the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. +2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall choose to place his name there. +3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, __even__ the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. +4 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there __any__ __thing__ of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. +5 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee: +6 But at the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. +7 And thou shalt roast and eat __it__ in the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. +8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day __shall__ __be__ a solemn assembly to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: thou shalt do no work __therein__. +9 ¶ Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from __such__ __time__ __as__ thou beginnest __to__ __put__ the sickle to the corn. +10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give __unto__ __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ __thy__ __God__, according as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath blessed thee: +11 And thou shalt rejoice before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that __is__ within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that __are__ among you, in the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath chosen to place his name there. +12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. +13 ¶ Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: +14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that __are__ within thy gates. +15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall choose: because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. +16 ¶ Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ empty: +17 Every man __shall__ __give__ as he is able, according to the blessing of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God which he hath given thee. +18 ¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment. +19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. +20 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee. +21 ¶ Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which thou shalt make thee. +22 Neither shalt thou set thee up __any__ image; which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hateth. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 THOU shalt not sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __any__ bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, __or__ any evilfavouredness: for that __is__ an abomination unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +2 ¶ If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, in transgressing his covenant, +3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; +4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard __of__ __it__, and inquired diligently, and, behold, __it__ __be__ true, __and__ the thing certain, __that__ such abomination is wrought in Israel: +5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, __even__ that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. +6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; __but__ at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. +7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. +8 ¶ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, __being__ matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall choose; +9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: +10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: +11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, __to__ the right hand, nor __to__ the left. +12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. +13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. +14 ¶ When thou art come unto the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that __are__ about me; +15 Thou shalt in any wise set __him__ king over thee, whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall choose: __one__ from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which __is__ not thy brother. +16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. +17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. +18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of __that__ __which__ __is__ before the priests the Levites: +19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: +20 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, __to__ the right hand, or __to__ the left: to the end that he may prolong __his__ days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 THE priests the Levites, __and__ all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made by fire, and his inheritance. +2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. +3 ¶ And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether __it__ __be__ ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. +4 The firstfruit __also__ of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. +5 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, him and his sons for ever. +6 ¶ And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall choose; +7 Then he shall minister in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, as all his brethren the Levites __do__, which stand there before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. +9 ¶ When thou art come into the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. +10 There shall not be found among you __any__ __one__ that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, __or__ that useth divination, __or__ an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, +11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. +12 For all that do these things __are__ an abomination unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and because of these abominations the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God doth drive them out from before thee. +13 Thou shalt be perfect with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +14 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath not suffered thee so __to__ __do__. +15 ¶ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; +16 According to all that thou desiredst of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. +17 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, They have well __spoken__ __that__ which they have spoken. +18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. +19 And it shall come to pass, __that__ whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require __it__ of him. +20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. +21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not spoken? +22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that __is__ the thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not spoken, __but__ the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 WHEN the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; +2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee to possess it. +3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. +4 ¶ And this __is__ the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past; +5 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: +6 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he __was__ not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. +7 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. +8 And if the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; +9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: +10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee __for__ an inheritance, and __so__ blood be upon thee. +11 ¶ But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: +12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. +13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away __the__ __guilt__ __of__ innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee. +14 ¶ Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee to possess it. +15 ¶ One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. +16 ¶ If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him __that__ __which__ __is__ wrong; +17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy __is__, shall stand before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; +18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, __if__ the witness __be__ a false witness, __and__ hath testified falsely against his brother; +19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. +20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. +21 And thine eye shall not pity; __but__ life __shall__ __go__ for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 WHEN thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, __and__ a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __is__ with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. +2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, +3 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; +4 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God __is__ he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. +5 ¶ And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man __is__ __there__ that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. +6 And what man __is__ __he__ that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not __yet__ eaten of it? let him __also__ go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it. +7 And what man __is__ __there__ that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. +8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man __is__ __there__ __that__ __is__ fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart. +9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people. +10 ¶ When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. +11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, __that__ all the people __that__ __is__ found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. +12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: +13 And when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: +14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, __even__ all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath given thee. +15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities __which__ __are__ very far off from thee, which __are__ not of the cities of these nations. +16 But of the cities of these people, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God doth give thee __for__ an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: +17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; __namely__, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath commanded thee: +18 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +19 ¶ When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field __is__ man's __life__) to employ __them__ in the siege: +20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they __be__ not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 IF __one__ be found slain in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, __and__ it be not known who hath slain him: +2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which __are__ round about him that is slain: +3 And it shall be, __that__ the city __which__ __is__ next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, __and__ which hath not drawn in the yoke; +4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley: +5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be __tried:__ +6 And all the elders of that city, __that__ __are__ next unto the slain __man__, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: +7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen __it__. +8 Be merciful, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. +9 So shalt thou put away the __guilt__ __of__ innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do __that__ __which__ __is__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 ¶ When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, +11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; +12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; +13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. +14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her. +15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, __both__ the beloved and the hated; and __if__ the firstborn son be hers that was hated: +16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit __that__ which he hath, __that__ he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, __which__ __is__ __indeed__ the firstborn: +17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated __for__ the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he __is__ the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn __is__ his. +18 ¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and __that__, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: +19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; +20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son __is__ stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; __he__ __is__ a glutton, and a drunkard. +21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. +22 ¶ And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: +23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged __is__ accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee __for__ an inheritance. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 THOU shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother. +2 And if thy brother __be__ not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. +3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. +4 ¶ Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift __them__ up again. +5 ¶ The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so __are__ abomination unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +6 ¶ If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, __whether__ __they__ __be__ young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: +7 __But__ thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and __that__ thou mayest prolong __thy__ days. +8 ¶ When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence. +9 ¶ Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. +10 ¶ Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. +11 ¶ Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, __as__ of woollen and linen together. +12 ¶ Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest __thyself__. +13 ¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, +14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: +15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth __the__ __tokens__ __of__ the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: +16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; +17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech __against__ __her__, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these __are__ __the__ __tokens__ __of__ my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. +18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; +19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred __shekels__ of silver, and give __them__ unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. +20 But if this thing be true, __and__ __the__ __tokens__ __of__ virginity be not found for the damsel: +21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. +22 ¶ If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, __both__ the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. +23 ¶ If a damsel __that__ __is__ a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; +24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, __being__ in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you. +25 ¶ But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die: +26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; __there__ __is__ in the damsel no sin __worthy__ of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so __is__ this matter: +27 For he found her in the field, __and__ the betrothed damsel cried, and __there__ __was__ none to save her. +28 ¶ If a man find a damsel __that__ __is__ a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; +29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty __shekels__ of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. +30 ¶ A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 HE that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for ever: +4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. +5 Nevertheless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God loved thee. +6 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. +7 ¶ Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he __is__ thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land. +8 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in their third generation. +9 ¶ When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. +10 ¶ If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp: +11 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash __himself__ with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp __again__. +12 ¶ Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad: +13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee: +14 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. +15 ¶ Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: +16 He shall dwell with thee, __even__ among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him. +17 ¶ There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. +18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God for any vow: for even both these __are__ abomination unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +19 ¶ Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: +20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it. +21 ¶ When thou shalt vow a vow unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. +22 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. +23 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; __even__ a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. +24 ¶ When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put __any__ in thy vessel. +25 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give __it__ in her hand, and send her out of his house. +2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's __wife__. +3 And __if__ the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth __it__ in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her __to__ __be__ his wife; +4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that __is__ abomination before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee __for__ an inheritance. +5 ¶ When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: __but__ he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. +6 ¶ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh __a__ __man__'__s__ life to pledge. +7 ¶ If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. +8 ¶ Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, __so__ ye shall observe to do. +9 Remember what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. +10 ¶ When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. +11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. +12 And if the man __be__ poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: +13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +14 ¶ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant __that__ __is__ poor and needy, __whether__ __he__ __be__ of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that __are__ in thy land within thy gates: +15 At his day thou shalt give __him__ his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he __is__ poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and it be sin unto thee. +16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. +17 ¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, __nor__ of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: +18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. +19 ¶ When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands. +20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. +21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean __it__ afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. +22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 IF there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that __the__ __judges__ may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. +2 And it shall be, if the wicked man __be__ worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. +3 Forty stripes he may give him, __and__ not exceed: lest, __if__ he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. +4 ¶ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out __the__ __corn__. +5 ¶ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. +6 And it shall be, __that__ the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother __which__ __is__ dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. +7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother. +8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and __if__ he stand __to__ __it__, and say, I like not to take her; +9 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house. +10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. +11 ¶ When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: +12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity __her__. +13 ¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. +14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small. +15 __But__ thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee. +16 For all that do such things, __and__ all that do unrighteously, __are__ an abomination unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +17 ¶ Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt; +18 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, __even__ all __that__ __were__ feeble behind thee, when thou __wast__ faint and weary; and he feared not God. +19 Therefore it shall be, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee __for__ an inheritance to possess it, __that__ thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 AND it shall be, when thou __art__ come in unto the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee __for__ an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; +2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, and shalt put __it__ in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall choose to place his name there. +3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, that I am come unto the country which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto our fathers for to give us. +4 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +5 And thou shalt speak and say before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, A Syrian ready to perish __was__ my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: +6 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: +7 And when we cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of our fathers, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: +8 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: +9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, __even__ a land that floweth with milk and honey. +10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and worship before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: +11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good __thing__ which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that __is__ among you. +12 ¶ When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, __which__ __is__ the year of tithing, and hast given __it__ unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled; +13 Then thou shalt say before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of __mine__ house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten __them:__ +14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away __ought__ thereof for __any__ unclean __use__, nor given __ought__ thereof for the dead: __but__ I have hearkened to the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, __and__ have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. +15 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey. +16 ¶ This day the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. +17 Thou hast avouched the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: +18 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that __thou__ shouldest keep all his commandments; +19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, as he hath spoken. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 AND Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. +2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister: +3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of thy fathers hath promised thee. +4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, __that__ ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister. +5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up __any__ iron __tool__ upon them. +6 Thou shalt build the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: +7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly. +9 ¶ And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day. +11 ¶ And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, +12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: +13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. +14 ¶ And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, +15 Cursed __be__ the man that maketh __any__ graven or molten image, an abomination unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth __it__ in __a__ secret __place__. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. +16 Cursed __be__ he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. +17 Cursed __be__ he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. +18 Cursed __be__ he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. +19 Cursed __be__ he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. +20 Cursed __be__ he that lieth with his father's wife; because he uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. +21 Cursed __be__ he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. +22 Cursed __be__ he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. +23 Cursed __be__ he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen. +24 Cursed __be__ he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. +25 Cursed __be__ he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. +26 Cursed __be__ he that confirmeth not __all__ the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 AND it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to observe __and__ to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: +2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +3 Blessed __shalt__ thou __be__ in the city, and blessed __shalt__ thou __be__ in the field. +4 Blessed __shall__ __be__ the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. +5 Blessed __shall__ __be__ thy basket and thy store. +6 Blessed __shalt__ thou __be__ when thou comest in, and blessed __shalt__ thou __be__ when thou goest out. +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God giveth thee. +9 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and walk in his ways. +10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and they shall be afraid of thee. +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto thy fathers to give thee. +12 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do __them:__ +14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, __to__ the right hand, or __to__ the left, to go after other gods to serve them. +15 ¶ But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: +16 Cursed __shalt__ thou __be__ in the city, and cursed __shalt__ thou __be__ in the field. +17 Cursed __shall__ __be__ thy basket and thy store. +18 Cursed __shall__ __be__ the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. +19 Cursed __shalt__ thou __be__ when thou comest in, and cursed __shalt__ thou __be__ when thou goest out. +20 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. +21 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. +22 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. +23 And thy heaven that __is__ over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that __is__ under thee __shall__ __be__ iron. +24 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. +25 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. +26 And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray __them__ away. +27 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. +28 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: +29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save __thee__. +30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof. +31 Thine ox __shall__ __be__ slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass __shall__ __be__ violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep __shall__ __be__ given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue __them__. +32 Thy sons and thy daughters __shall__ __be__ given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail __with__ __longing__ for them all the day long: and __there__ __shall__ __be__ no might in thine hand. +33 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: +34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. +35 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. +36 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. +37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall lead thee. +38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather __but__ little in; for the locust shall consume it. +39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress __them__, but shalt neither drink __of__ the wine, nor gather __the__ __grapes;__ for the worms shall eat them. +40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint __thyself__ with the oil; for thine olive shall cast __his__ __fruit__. +41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity. +42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. +43 The stranger that __is__ within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. +44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. +45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: +46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. +47 Because thou servedst not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all __things;__ +48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all __things:__ and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. +49 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, __as__ __swift__ as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; +50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: +51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which __also__ shall not leave thee __either__ corn, wine, or oil, __or__ the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. +52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath given thee. +53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: +54 __So__ __that__ the man __that__ __is__ tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: +55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. +56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, +57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all __things__ secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. +58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; +59 Then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, __even__ great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. +60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee. +61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which __is__ not written in the book of this law, them will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. +62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +63 And it shall come to pass, __that__ as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. +64 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, __even__ wood and stone. +65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: +66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: +67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. +68 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy __you__. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 THESE __are__ the words of the covenant, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. +2 ¶ And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; +3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: +4 Yet the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. +5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. +6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: +8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. +9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. +10 ¶ Ye stand this day all of you before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, __with__ all the men of Israel, +11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that __is__ in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: +12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and into his oath, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God maketh with thee this day: +13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and __that__ he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. +14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; +15 But with __him__ that standeth here with us this day before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, and also with __him__ that __is__ not here with us this day: +16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; +17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which __were__ among them:) +18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, to go __and__ serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; +19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: +20 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not spare him, but then the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall blot out his name from under heaven. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law: +22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath laid upon it; +23 __And__ __that__ the whole land thereof __is__ brimstone, and salt, __and__ burning, __that__ it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: +24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ done thus unto this land? what __meaneth__ the heat of this great anger? +25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: +26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and __whom__ he had not given unto them: +27 And the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: +28 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as __it__ __is__ this day. +29 The secret __things__ __belong__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God: but those __things__ __which__ __are__ revealed __belong__ unto us and to our children for ever, that __we__ may do all the words of this law. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 AND it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call __them__ to mind among all the nations, whither the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath driven thee, +2 And shalt return unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; +3 That then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath scattered thee. +4 If __any__ of thine be driven out unto the outmost __parts__ of heaven, from thence will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. +6 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. +7 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee. +8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. +9 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: +10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, __and__ if thou turn unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. +11 ¶ For this commandment which I command thee this day, it __is__ not hidden from thee, neither __is__ it far off. +12 It __is__ not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? +13 Neither __is__ it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? +14 But the word __is__ very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. +15 ¶ See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; +16 In that I command thee this day to love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. +17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; +18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, __and__ __that__ ye shall not prolong __your__ days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. +19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, __that__ I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: +20 That thou mayest love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, __and__ that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he __is__ thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 AND Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel. +2 And he said unto them, I __am__ an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, he will go over before thee, __and__ he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: __and__ Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said. +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. +6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, he __it__ __is__ that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. +7 ¶ And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. +8 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he __it__ __is__ that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. +9 ¶ And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and unto all the elders of Israel. +10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of __every__ seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, +11 When all Israel is come to appear before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. +12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that __is__ within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and observe to do all the words of this law: +13 And __that__ their children, which have not known __any__ __thing__, may hear, and learn to fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. +14 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. +16 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go __to__ __be__ among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. +17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God __is__ not among us? +18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. +19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. +20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. +21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. +22 ¶ Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. +23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee. +24 ¶ And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, +25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. +27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and how much more after my death? +28 ¶ Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. +29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt __yourselves__, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. +30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +1 GIVE ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. +2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: +3 Because I will publish the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. +4 __He__ __is__ the Rock, his work __is__ perfect: for all his ways __are__ judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right __is__ he. +5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot __is__ not __the__ __spot__ of his children: __they__ __are__ a perverse and crooked generation. +6 Do ye thus requite the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O foolish people and unwise? __is__ not he thy father __that__ hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee? +7 ¶ Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. +8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. +9 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s portion __is__ his people; Jacob __is__ the lot of his inheritance. +10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. +11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: +12 __So__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ alone did lead him, and __there__ __was__ no strange god with him. +13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; +14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape. +15 ¶ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered __with__ __fatness;__ then he forsook God __which__ made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. +16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange __gods__, with abominations provoked they him to anger. +17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new __gods__ __that__ came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. +18 Of the Rock __that__ begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. +19 And when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saw __it__, he abhorred __them__, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. +20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end __shall__ __be:__ for they __are__ a very froward generation, children in whom __is__ no faith. +21 They have moved me to jealousy with __that__ __which__ __is__ not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with __those__ __which__ __are__ not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. +22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. +23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. +24 __They__ __shall__ __be__ burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. +25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling __also__ with the man of gray hairs. +26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: +27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, __and__ lest they should say, Our hand __is__ high, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not done all this. +28 For they __are__ a nation void of counsel, neither __is__ __there__ __any__ understanding in them. +29 O that they were wise, __that__ they understood this, __that__ they would consider their latter end! +30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had shut them up? +31 For their rock __is__ not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves __being__ judges. +32 For their vine __is__ of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes __are__ grapes of gall, their clusters __are__ bitter: +33 Their wine __is__ the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. +34 __Is__ not this laid up in store with me, __and__ sealed up among my treasures? +35 To me __belongeth__ vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in __due__ time: for the day of their calamity __is__ at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. +36 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that __their__ power is gone, and __there__ __is__ none shut up, or left. +37 And he shall say, Where __are__ their gods, __their__ rock in whom they trusted, +38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, __and__ drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, __and__ be your protection. +39 See now that I, __even__ I, __am__ he, and __there__ __is__ no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither __is__ __there__ __any__ that can deliver out of my hand. +40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. +41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. +42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; __and__ __that__ with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. +43 Rejoice, O ye nations, __with__ his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, __and__ to his people. +44 ¶ And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. +45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: +46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. +47 For it __is__ not a vain thing for you; because it __is__ your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong __your__ days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it. +48 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, +49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, __unto__ mount Nebo, which __is__ in the land of Moab, that __is__ over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession: +50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: +51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. +52 Yet thou shalt see the land before __thee;__ but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 AND this __is__ the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. +2 And he said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand __went__ a fiery law for them. +3 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints __are__ in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; __every__ __one__ shall receive of thy words. +4 Moses commanded us a law, __even__ the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. +5 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people __and__ the tribes of Israel were gathered together. +6 ¶ Let Reuben live, and not die; and let __not__ his men be few. +7 ¶ And this __is__ __the__ __blessing__ of Judah: and he said, Hear, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help __to__ __him__ from his enemies. +8 ¶ And of Levi he said, __Let__ thy Thummim and thy Urim __be__ with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, __and__ __with__ whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; +9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant. +10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. +11 Bless, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again. +12 ¶ __And__ of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall dwell in safety by him; __and__ __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. +13 ¶ And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __be__ his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, +14 And for the precious fruits __brought__ __forth__ by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, +15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, +16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and __for__ the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let __the__ __blessing__ come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him __that__ __was__ separated from his brethren. +17 His glory __is__ __like__ the firstling of his bullock, and his horns __are__ __like__ the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they __are__ the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they __are__ the thousands of Manasseh. +18 ¶ And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. +19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck __of__ the abundance of the seas, and __of__ treasures hid in the sand. +20 ¶ And of Gad he said, Blessed __be__ he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. +21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, __in__ a portion of the lawgiver, __was__ __he__ seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his judgments with Israel. +22 ¶ And of Dan he said, Dan __is__ a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan. +23 ¶ And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: possess thou the west and the south. +24 ¶ And of Asher he said, __Let__ Asher __be__ blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. +25 Thy shoes __shall__ __be__ iron and brass; and as thy days, __so__ __shall__ thy strength __be__. +26 ¶ __There__ __is__ none like unto the God of Jeshurun, __who__ rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. +27 The eternal God __is__ __thy__ refuge, and underneath __are__ the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy __them__. +28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob __shall__ __be__ upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew. +29 Happy __art__ thou, O Israel: who __is__ like unto thee, O people saved by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the shield of thy help, and who __is__ the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +1 AND Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that __is__ over against Jericho. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, +2 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, +3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, This __is__ the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see __it__ with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. +5 ¶ So Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. +7 ¶ And Moses __was__ an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. +8 ¶ And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping __and__ mourning for Moses were ended. +9 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +10 ¶ And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ knew face to face, +11 In all the signs and the wonders, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land, +12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel. +:::SET BOOK Joshua +:::SET TITLE The Book of Joshua +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW after the death of Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ it came to pass, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, +2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, __even__ to the children of Israel. +3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. +4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. +5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, __so__ I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. +6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. +7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it __to__ the right hand or __to__ the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. +8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. +9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God __is__ with thee whithersoever thou goest. +10 ¶ Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, +11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God giveth you to possess it. +12 ¶ And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, +13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded you, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land. +14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them; +15 Until the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have given your brethren rest, as __he__ __hath__ __given__ you, and they also have possessed the land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising. +16 ¶ And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go. +17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses. +18 Whosoever __he__ __be__ that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. +2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country. +3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country. +4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they __were:__ +5 And it came to pass __about__ __the__ __time__ of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them. +6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. +7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate. +8 ¶ And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof; +9 And she said unto the men, I know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. +10 For we have heard how the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that __were__ on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. +11 And as soon as we had heard __these__ __things__, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, he __is__ God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. +12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token: +13 And __that__ ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. +14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee. +15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house __was__ upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. +16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way. +17 And the men said unto her, We __will__ __be__ blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear. +18 Behold, __when__ we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee. +19 And it shall be, __that__ whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood __shall__ __be__ upon his head, and we __will__ __be__ guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood __shall__ __be__ on our head, if __any__ hand be upon him. +20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. +21 And she said, According unto your words, so __be__ it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window. +22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought __them__ throughout all the way, but found __them__ not. +23 ¶ So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all __things__ that befell them: +24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. +2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host; +3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. +4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed __this__ way heretofore. +5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will do wonders among you. +6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. +7 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, __so__ I will be with thee. +8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. +9 ¶ And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God __is__ among you, and __that__ he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites. +11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan. +12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man. +13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, __that__ the waters of Jordan shall be cut off __from__ the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. +14 ¶ And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; +15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) +16 That the waters which came down from above stood __and__ rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that __is__ beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, __even__ the salt sea, failed, __and__ were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. +17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Joshua, saying, +2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, +3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. +4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: +5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: +6 That this may be a sign among you, __that__ when your children ask __their__ __fathers__ in time to come, saying, What __mean__ ye by these stones? +7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. +8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. +9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day. +10 ¶ For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over. +11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. +12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: +13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. +14 ¶ On that day the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Joshua, saying, +16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. +17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. +18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ were come up out of the midst of Jordan, __and__ the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as __they__ __did__ before. +19 ¶ And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth __day__ of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. +20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. +21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What __mean__ these stones? +22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. +23 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: +24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that it __is__ mighty: that ye might fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which __were__ on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which __were__ by the sea, heard that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. +2 ¶ At that time the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. +3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. +4 And this __is__ the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, __that__ __were__ males, __even__ all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. +5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people __that__ __were__ born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, __them__ they had not circumcised. +6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people __that__ __were__ men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: unto whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware that he would not shew them the land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey. +7 And their children, __whom__ he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. +8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole. +9 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. +10 ¶ And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. +11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched __corn__ in the selfsame day. +12 ¶ And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. +13 ¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, __Art__ thou for us, or for our adversaries? +14 And he said, Nay; but __as__ captain of the host of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? +15 And the captain of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest __is__ holy. And Joshua did so. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 NOW Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, __and__ the mighty men of valour. +3 And ye shall compass the city, all __ye__ men of war, __and__ go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. +4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. +5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long __blast__ with the ram's horn, __and__ when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him. +6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 ¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ followed them. +9 ¶ And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, __the__ __priests__ going on, and blowing with the trumpets. +10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall __any__ word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout. +11 So the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ compassed the city, going about __it__ once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp. +12 ¶ And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __the__ __priests__ going on, and blowing with the trumpets. +14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. +15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times. +16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given you the city. +17 ¶ And the city shall be accursed, __even__ it, and all that __are__ therein, to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that __are__ with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. +18 And ye, in any wise keep __yourselves__ from the accursed thing, lest ye make __yourselves__ accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. +19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, __are__ consecrated unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: they shall come into the treasury of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 So the people shouted when __the__ __priests__ blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. +21 And they utterly destroyed all that __was__ in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. +22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her. +23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel. +24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that __was__ therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel __even__ unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. +26 ¶ And Joshua adjured __them__ at that time, saying, Cursed __be__ the man before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest __son__ shall he set up the gates of it. +27 So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with Joshua; and his fame was __noised__ throughout all the country. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 BUT the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against the children of Israel. +2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which __is__ beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. +3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; __and__ make not all the people to labour thither; for they __are__ __but__ few. +4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. +5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them __from__ before the gate __even__ unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water. +6 ¶ And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. +7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! +8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! +9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear __of__ __it__, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name? +10 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? +11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put __it__ even among their own stuff. +12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, __but__ turned __their__ backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. +13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, __There__ __is__ an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. +14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, __that__ the tribe which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ taketh shall come according to the families __thereof;__ and the family which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall take shall come by households; and the household which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall take shall come man by man. +15 And it shall be, __that__ he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel. +16 ¶ So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: +17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: +18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. +19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide __it__ not from me. +20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: +21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they __are__ hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. +22 ¶ So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, __it__ __was__ hid in his tent, and the silver under it. +23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. +25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. +26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: +2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. +3 ¶ So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night. +4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, __even__ behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready: +5 And I, and all the people that __are__ with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them, +6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them. +7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God will deliver it into your hand. +8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, __that__ ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall ye do. See, I have commanded you. +9 ¶ Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people. +10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. +11 And all the people, __even__ __the__ __people__ of war that __were__ with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now __there__ __was__ a valley between them and Ai. +12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city. +13 And when they had set the people, __even__ all the host that __was__ on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. +14 ¶ And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw __it__, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that __there__ __were__ liers in ambush against him behind the city. +15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. +16 And all the people that __were__ in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. +17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. +18 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that __is__ in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that __he__ __had__ in his hand toward the city. +19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire. +20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. +21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai. +22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape. +23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. +24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. +25 And __so__ it was, __that__ all that fell that day, both of men and women, __were__ twelve thousand, __even__ all the men of Ai. +26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. +27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which he commanded Joshua. +28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, __even__ a desolation unto this day. +29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, __that__ __remaineth__ unto this day. +30 ¶ Then Joshua built an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel in mount Ebal, +31 As Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up __any__ iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and sacrificed peace offerings. +32 ¶ And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. +33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. +34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law. +35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND it came to pass, when all the kings which __were__ on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard __thereof;__ +2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. +3 ¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, +4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; +5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry __and__ mouldy. +6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. +7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? +8 And they said unto Joshua, We __are__ thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who __are__ ye? and from whence come ye? +9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, +10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that __were__ beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which __was__ at Ashtaroth. +11 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We __are__ your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us. +12 This our bread we took hot __for__ our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: +13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, __were__ new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. +14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not __counsel__ at the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. +16 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they __were__ their neighbours, and __that__ they dwelt among them. +17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities __were__ Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim. +18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. +19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. +20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them. +21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them. +22 ¶ And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We __are__ very far from you; when ye dwell among us? +23 Now therefore ye __are__ cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. +24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing. +25 And now, behold, we __are__ in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do. +26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not. +27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 NOW it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; +2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon __was__ a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it __was__ greater than Ai, and all the men thereof __were__ mighty. +3 Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying, +4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. +5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it. +6 ¶ And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us. +7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour. +8 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. +9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, __and__ went up from Gilgal all night. +10 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. +11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, __and__ were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: __they__ __were__ more which died with hailstones than __they__ whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. +12 ¶ Then spake Joshua to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the day when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. +13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. __Is__ not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. +14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ fought for Israel. +15 ¶ And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal. +16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. +17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. +18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them: +19 And stay ye not, __but__ pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath delivered them into your hand. +20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest __which__ remained of them entered into fenced cities. +21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. +22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave. +23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, __and__ the king of Eglon. +24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. +25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do to all your enemies against whom ye fight. +26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening. +27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, __that__ Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, __which__ __remain__ until this very day. +28 ¶ And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that __were__ therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho. +29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: +30 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that __were__ therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho. +31 ¶ And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it: +32 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that __were__ therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah. +33 ¶ Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. +34 ¶ And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it: +35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that __were__ therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish. +36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it: +37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that __were__ therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that __were__ therein. +38 ¶ And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it: +39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that __were__ therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king. +40 ¶ So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel commanded. +41 And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon. +42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel fought for Israel. +43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard __those__ __things__, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, +2 And to the kings that __were__ on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west, +3 __And__ __to__ the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and __to__ the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and __to__ the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh. +4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that __is__ upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. +5 And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel. +6 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire. +7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them. +8 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining. +9 And Joshua did unto them as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire. +10 ¶ And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms. +11 And they smote all the souls that __were__ therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying __them:__ there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire. +12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, __and__ he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded. +13 But __as__ __for__ the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; __that__ did Joshua burn. +14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe. +15 ¶ As the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same; +17 __Even__ from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them. +18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. +19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all __other__ they took in battle. +20 For it was of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, __and__ that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +21 ¶ And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities. +22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained. +23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 NOW these __are__ the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east: +2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, __and__ ruled from Aroer, which __is__ upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, __which__ __is__ the border of the children of Ammon; +3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, __even__ the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth-pisgah: +4 ¶ And the coast of Og king of Bashan, __which__ __was__ of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, +5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. +6 Them did Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave it __for__ a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh. +7 ¶ And these __are__ the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel __for__ a possession according to their divisions; +8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: +9 ¶ The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which __is__ beside Beth-el, one; +10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; +11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; +12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; +13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; +14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; +15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; +16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one; +17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; +18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; +19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; +20 The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; +21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; +22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one; +23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one; +24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 NOW Joshua was old __and__ stricken in years; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Thou art old __and__ stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. +2 This __is__ the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri, +3 From Sihor, which __is__ before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, __which__ is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites: +4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that __is__ beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: +5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath. +6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, __and__ all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee. +7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, +8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, __even__ as Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave them; +9 From Aroer, that __is__ upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that __is__ in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; +10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon; +11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; +12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out. +13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day. +14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel made by fire __are__ their inheritance, as he said unto them. +15 ¶ And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben __inheritance__ according to their families. +16 And their coast was from Aroer, that __is__ on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that __is__ in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba; +17 Heshbon, and all her cities that __are__ in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, +18 And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, +19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley, +20 And Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth, +21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, __which__ __were__ dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country. +22 ¶ Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them. +23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border __thereof__. This __was__ the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof. +24 And Moses gave __inheritance__ unto the tribe of Gad, __even__ unto the children of Gad according to their families. +25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that __is__ before Rabbah; +26 And from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; +27 And in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and __his__ border, __even__ unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward. +28 This __is__ the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages. +29 ¶ And Moses gave __inheritance__ unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and __this__ was __the__ __possession__ of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families. +30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which __are__ in Bashan, threescore cities: +31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, __were__ __pertaining__ unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, __even__ to the one half of the children of Machir by their families. +32 These __are__ __the__ __countries__ which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward. +33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not __any__ inheritance: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel __was__ their inheritance, as he said unto them. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AND these __are__ __the__ __countries__ which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. +2 By lot __was__ their inheritance, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and __for__ the half tribe. +3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. +4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell __in__, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. +5 As the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land. +6 ¶ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea. +7 Forty years old __was__ I when Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as __it__ __was__ in mine heart. +8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God. +9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God. +10 And now, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake this word unto Moses, while __the__ __children__ __of__ Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I __am__ this day fourscore and five years old. +11 As yet I __am__ __as__ strong this day as __I__ __was__ in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength __was__ then, even so __is__ my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. +12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims __were__ there, and __that__ the cities __were__ great __and__ fenced: if so be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __will__ __be__ with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said. +13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. +14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +15 And the name of Hebron before __was__ Kirjath-arba; __which__ __Arba__ __was__ a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 __THIS__ then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; __even__ to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward __was__ the uttermost part of the south coast. +2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: +3 And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: +4 __From__ __thence__ it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast. +5 And the east border __was__ the salt sea, __even__ unto the end of Jordan. And __their__ border in the north quarter __was__ from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan: +6 And the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben: +7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that __is__ before the going up to Adummim, which __is__ on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En-rogel: +8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same __is__ Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that __lieth__ before the valley of Hinnom westward, which __is__ at the end of the valley of the giants northward: +9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which __is__ Kirjath-jearim: +10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which __is__ Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah: +11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. +12 And the west border __was__ to the great sea, and the coast __thereof__. This __is__ the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families. +13 ¶ And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to Joshua, __even__ the city of Arba the father of Anak, which __city__ __is__ Hebron. +14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. +15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before __was__ Kirjath-sepher. +16 ¶ And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. +17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. +18 And it came to pass, as she came __unto__ __him__, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off __her__ ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou? +19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs. +20 This __is__ the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. +21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, +22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, +23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, +24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, +25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, __and__ Hezron, which __is__ Hazor, +26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, +27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-palet, +28 And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah, +29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem, +30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, +31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, +32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities __are__ twenty and nine, with their villages: +33 __And__ in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah, +34 And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam, +35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah, +36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages: +37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad, +38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel, +39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, +40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish, +41 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages: +42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, +43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib, +44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages: +45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages: +46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that __lay__ near Ashdod, with their villages: +47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border __thereof:__ +48 ¶ And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh, +49 And Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which __is__ Debir, +50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim, +51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages: +52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, +53 And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah, +54 And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which __is__ Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages: +55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah, +56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, +57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages: +58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor, +59 And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages: +60 Kirjath-baal, which __is__ Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages: +61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah, +62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages. +63 ¶ As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 AND the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-el, +2 And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth, +3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea. +4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. +5 ¶ And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was __thus:__ even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper; +6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah; +7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan. +8 The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This __is__ the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. +9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim __were__ among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. +10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 THERE was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he __was__ the firstborn of Joseph; __to__ __wit__, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. +2 There was also __a__ __lot__ for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these __were__ the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families. +3 ¶ But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these __are__ the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. +4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. +5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which __were__ on the other side Jordan; +6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead. +7 ¶ And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that __lieth__ before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah. +8 __Now__ Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh __belonged__ to the children of Ephraim; +9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim __are__ among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also __was__ on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea: +10 Southward __it__ __was__ Ephraim's, and northward __it__ __was__ Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east. +11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, __even__ three countries. +12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out __the__ __inhabitants__ __of__ those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. +13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out. +14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me __but__ one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I __am__ a great people, forasmuch as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath blessed me hitherto? +15 And Joshua answered them, If thou __be__ a great people, __then__ get thee up to the wood __country__, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee. +16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, __both__ __they__ who __are__ of Beth-shean and her towns, and __they__ who __are__ of the valley of Jezreel. +17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, __even__ to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou __art__ a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot __only:__ +18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it __is__ a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, __and__ though they __be__ strong. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AND the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them. +2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance. +3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long __are__ ye slack to go to possess the land, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers hath given you? +4 Give out from among you three men for __each__ tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come __again__ to me. +5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north. +6 Ye shall therefore describe the land __into__ seven parts, and bring __the__ __description__ hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave them. +8 ¶ And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Shiloh. +9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came __again__ to Joshua to the host at Shiloh. +10 ¶ And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions. +11 ¶ And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. +12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven. +13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which __is__ Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that __lieth__ on the south side of the nether Beth-horon. +14 And the border was drawn __thence__, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that __lieth__ before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which __is__ Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this __was__ the west quarter. +15 And the south quarter __was__ from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah: +16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that __lieth__ before the valley of the son of Hinnom, __and__ which __is__ in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel, +17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which __is__ over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben, +18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah: +19 And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this __was__ the south coast. +20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This __was__ the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families. +21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz, +22 And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el, +23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, +24 And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages: +25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, +26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah, +27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, +28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which __is__ Jerusalem, Gibeath, __and__ Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This __is__ the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND the second lot came forth to Simeon, __even__ for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. +2 And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, +3 And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem, +4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, +5 And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah, +6 And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: +7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages: +8 And all the villages that __were__ round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This __is__ the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. +9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah __was__ the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them. +10 ¶ And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid: +11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that __is__ before Jokneam; +12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia, +13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar to Neah; +14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah-el: +15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages. +16 This __is__ the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages. +17 ¶ __And__ the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families. +18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, +19 And Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath, +20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez, +21 And Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez; +22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages. +23 This __is__ the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages. +24 ¶ And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. +25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, +26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath; +27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand, +28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, __even__ unto great Zidon; +29 And __then__ the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib: +30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages. +31 This __is__ the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages. +32 ¶ The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, __even__ for the children of Naphtali according to their families. +33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan: +34 And __then__ the coast turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising. +35 And the fenced cities __are__ Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, +36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, +37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor, +38 And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. +39 This __is__ the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages. +40 ¶ __And__ the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. +41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh, +42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah, +43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron, +44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, +45 And Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon, +46 And Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho. +47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out __too__ __little__ for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. +48 This __is__ the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages. +49 ¶ When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them: +50 According to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ they gave him the city which he asked, __even__ Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein. +51 These __are__ the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 THE $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ also spake unto Joshua, saying, +2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: +3 That the slayer that killeth __any__ person unawares __and__ unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. +4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. +5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime. +6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, __and__ until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled. +7 ¶ And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which __is__ Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. +8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. +9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth __any__ person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 THEN came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel; +2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle. +3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, these cities and their suburbs. +4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, __which__ __were__ of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities. +5 And the rest of the children of Kohath __had__ by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. +6 And the children of Gershon __had__ by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. +7 The children of Merari by their families __had__ out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. +8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded by the hand of Moses. +9 ¶ And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are __here__ mentioned by name, +10 Which the children of Aaron, __being__ of the families of the Kohathites, __who__ __were__ of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot. +11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which __city__ __is__ Hebron, in the hill __country__ of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it. +12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. +13 ¶ Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, __to__ __be__ a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs, +14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs, +15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs, +16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, __and__ Beth-shemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes. +17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, +18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities. +19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, __were__ thirteen cities with their suburbs. +20 ¶ And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. +21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, __to__ __be__ a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs, +22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs; four cities. +23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs, +24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; four cities. +25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs; two cities. +26 All the cities __were__ ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained. +27 ¶ And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the __other__ half tribe of Manasseh __they__ __gave__ Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, __to__ __be__ a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beesh-terah with her suburbs; two cities. +28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs, +29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, En-gannim with her suburbs; four cities. +30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs, +31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities. +32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, __to__ __be__ a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammoth-dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities. +33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families __were__ thirteen cities with their suburbs. +34 ¶ And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs, +35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities. +36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, +37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities. +38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, __to__ __be__ a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs, +39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all. +40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were __by__ their lot twelve cities. +41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel __were__ forty and eight cities with their suburbs. +42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus __were__ all these cities. +43 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. +44 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered all their enemies into their hand. +45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 THEN Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, +2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: +3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +4 And now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, __and__ unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave you on the other side Jordan. +5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ charged you, to love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. +6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents. +7 ¶ Now to the __one__ half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given __possession__ in Bashan: but unto the __other__ half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them, +8 And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren. +9 ¶ And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which __is__ in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the hand of Moses. +10 ¶ And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that __are__ in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to. +11 ¶ And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel. +12 And when the children of Israel heard __of__ __it__, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them. +13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, +14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one __was__ an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel. +15 ¶ And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying, +16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, What trespass __is__ this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +17 __Is__ the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? and it will be, __seeing__ ye rebel to day against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel. +19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession __be__ unclean, __then__ pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, wherein the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity. +21 ¶ Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel, +22 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of gods, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if __it__ __be__ in rebellion, or if in transgression against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, (save us not this day,) +23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ himself require __it;__ +24 And if we have not __rather__ done it for fear of __this__ thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel? +25 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: +27 But __that__ it __may__ __be__ a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should __so__ say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say __again__, Behold the pattern of the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it __is__ a witness between us and you. +29 God forbid that we should rebel against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and turn this day from following the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God that __is__ before his tabernacle. +30 ¶ And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which __were__ with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them. +31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +32 ¶ And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. +33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt. +34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar __Ed:__ for it __shall__ __be__ a witness between us that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ God. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 AND it came to pass a long time after that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old __and__ stricken in age. +2 And Joshua called for all Israel, __and__ for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old __and__ stricken in age: +3 And ye have seen all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God __is__ he that hath fought for you. +4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath promised unto you. +6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom __to__ the right hand or __to__ the left; +7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear __by__ __them__, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them: +8 But cleave unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, as ye have done unto this day. +9 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but __as__ __for__ you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day. +10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, he __it__ __is__ that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you. +11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, __even__ these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: +13 Know for a certainty that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God will no more drive out __any__ __of__ these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath given you. +14 And, behold, this day I __am__ going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, __and__ not one thing hath failed thereof. +15 Therefore it shall come to pass, __that__ as all good things are come upon you, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God promised you; so shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God hath given you. +16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AND Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. +2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, __even__ Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. +3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. +4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. +5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. +6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea. +7 And when they cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season. +8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. +9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: +10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. +11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. +12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, __even__ the two kings of the Amorites; __but__ not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. +13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. +14 ¶ Now therefore fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that __were__ on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to serve other gods; +17 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, he __it__ __is__ that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: +18 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: __therefore__ will we also serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for he __is__ our God. +19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he __is__ an holy God; he __is__ a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. +20 If ye forsake the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. +21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye __are__ witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to serve him. And they said, __We__ __are__ witnesses. +23 Now therefore put away, __said__ __he__, the strange gods which __are__ among you, and incline your heart unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +24 And the people said unto Joshua, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. +25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. +26 ¶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that __was__ by the sanctuary of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. +28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. +29 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, died, __being__ an hundred and ten years old. +30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which __is__ in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. +31 And Israel served the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he had done for Israel. +32 ¶ And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. +33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill __that__ __pertained__ __to__ Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim. +:::SET BOOK Judges +:::SET TITLE The Book of Judges +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. +3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. +4 And Judah went up; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. +5 And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. +6 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. +7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered __their__ __meat__ under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. +8 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. +9 ¶ And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley. +10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before __was__ Kirjath-arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai. +11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before __was__ Kirjath-sepher: +12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. +13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. +14 And it came to pass, when she came __to__ __him__, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off __her__ ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou? +15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs. +16 ¶ And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which __lieth__ in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people. +17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah. +18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. +19 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with Judah; and he drave out __the__ __inhabitants__ __of__ the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. +20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak. +21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day. +22 ¶ And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ with them. +23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth-el. (Now the name of the city before __was__ Luz.) +24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy. +25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family. +26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which __is__ the name thereof unto this day. +27 ¶ Neither did Manasseh drive out __the__ __inhabitants__ __of__ Beth-shean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. +28 And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out. +29 ¶ Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. +30 ¶ Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries. +31 ¶ Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: +32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out. +33 ¶ Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributaries unto them. +34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: +35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries. +36 And the coast of the Amorites __was__ from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND an angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. +2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? +3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be __as__ __thorns__ in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. +4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. +5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 ¶ And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. +7 And the people served the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he did for Israel. +8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, died, __being__ an hundred and ten years old. +9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. +10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. +11 ¶ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and served Baalim: +12 And they forsook the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that __were__ round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to anger. +13 And they forsook the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. +14 ¶ And the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. +15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was against them for evil, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said, and as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. +16 ¶ Nevertheless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. +17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; __but__ they did not so. +18 And when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ raised them up judges, then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. +19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, __that__ they returned, and corrupted __themselves__ more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. +20 ¶ And the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; +21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: +22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to walk therein, as their fathers did keep __it__, or not. +23 Therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 NOW these __are__ the nations which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ left, to prove Israel by them, __even__ as many __of__ __Israel__ as had not known all the wars of Canaan; +2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; +3 __Namely__, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath. +4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. +5 ¶ And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: +6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. +7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and forgat the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and served Baalim and the groves. +8 ¶ Therefore the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years. +9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, __even__ Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. +10 And the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim. +11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died. +12 ¶ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. +14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. +15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab. +16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh. +17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon __was__ a very fat man. +18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present. +19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that __were__ by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. +20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of __his__ seat. +21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: +22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. +23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. +24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour __were__ locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. +25 And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened __them:__ and, behold, their lord __was__ fallen down dead on the earth. +26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath. +27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them. +28 And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over. +29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man. +30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years. +31 ¶ And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when Ehud was dead. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host __was__ Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. +3 And the children of Israel cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. +4 ¶ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. +5 And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. +6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel commanded, __saying__, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? +7 And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand. +8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, __then__ I will not go. +9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh. +10 ¶ And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him. +11 Now Heber the Kenite, __which__ __was__ of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which __is__ by Kedesh. +12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. +13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, __even__ nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that __were__ with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon. +14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this __is__ the day in which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ discomfited Sisera, and all __his__ chariots, and all __his__ host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off __his__ chariot, and fled away on his feet. +16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; __and__ there was not a man left. +17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for __there__ __was__ peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. +18 ¶ And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. +19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. +20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No. +21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. +22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her __tent__, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail __was__ in his temples. +23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel. +24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 THEN sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying, +2 Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves. +3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, __even__ I, will sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; I will sing __praise__ to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +4 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water. +5 The mountains melted from before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ that Sinai from before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. +7 __The__ __inhabitants__ __of__ the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. +8 They chose new gods; then __was__ war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? +9 My heart __is__ toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way. +11 __They__ __that__ __are__ __delivered__ from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ the righteous acts __toward__ __the__ __inhabitants__ of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ go down to the gates. +12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam. +13 Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over the nobles among the people: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made me have dominion over the mighty. +14 Out of Ephraim __was__ __there__ a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer. +15 And the princes of Issachar __were__ with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben __there__ __were__ great thoughts of heart. +16 Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben __there__ __were__ great searchings of heart. +17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches. +18 Zebulun and Naphtali __were__ a people __that__ jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. +19 The kings came __and__ fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money. +20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. +21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. +22 Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones. +23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to the help of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ against the mighty. +24 Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. +25 He asked water, __and__ she gave __him__ milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. +26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. +27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead. +28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot __so__ long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? +29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, +30 Have they not sped? have they __not__ divided the prey; to every man a damsel __or__ two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, __meet__ for the necks of __them__ __that__ __take__ the spoil? +31 So let all thine enemies perish, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but __let__ them that love him __be__ as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. +2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: __and__ because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which __are__ in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. +3 And __so__ it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; +4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. +5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; __for__ both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. +6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 ¶ And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ because of the Midianites, +8 That the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage; +9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land; +10 And I said unto you, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice. +11 ¶ And there came an angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and sat under an oak which __was__ in Ophrah, that __pertained__ unto Joash the Abi-ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide __it__ from the Midianites. +12 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto him, and said unto him, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ with thee, thou mighty man of valour. +13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where __be__ all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bring us up from Egypt? but now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. +14 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? +15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family __is__ poor in Manasseh, and I __am__ the least in my father's house. +16 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. +17 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me. +18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set __it__ before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again. +19 ¶ And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought __it__ out unto him under the oak, and presented __it__. +20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay __them__ upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. +21 ¶ Then the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ put forth the end of the staff that __was__ in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ departed out of his sight. +22 And when Gideon perceived that he __was__ an angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$! for because I have seen an angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ face to face. +23 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Peace __be__ unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die. +24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it __is__ yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites. +25 ¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that __is__ by it: +26 And build an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down. +27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said unto him: and __so__ it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do __it__ by day, that he did __it__ by night. +28 ¶ And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that __was__ by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar __that__ __was__ built. +29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing. +30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that __was__ by it. +31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst __it__ __is__ __yet__ morning: if he __be__ a god, let him plead for himself, because __one__ hath cast down his altar. +32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. +33 ¶ Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel. +34 But the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi-ezer was gathered after him. +35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. +36 ¶ And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said, +37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; __and__ if the dew be on the fleece only, and __it__ __be__ dry upon all the earth __beside__, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said. +38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water. +39 And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. +40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 THEN Jerubbaal, who __is__ Gideon, and all the people that __were__ with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Gideon, The people that __are__ with thee __are__ too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. +3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever __is__ fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Gideon, The people __are__ yet __too__ many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, __that__ of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. +5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. +6 And the number of them that lapped, __putting__ their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. +7 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the __other__ people go every man unto his place. +8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all __the__ __rest__ __of__ Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley. +9 ¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. +10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host: +11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that __were__ in the host. +12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels __were__ without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude. +13 And when Gideon was come, behold, __there__ __was__ a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. +14 And his fellow answered and said, This __is__ nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: __for__ into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host. +15 ¶ And it was __so__, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. +16 And he divided the three hundred men __into__ three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. +17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be __that__, as I do, so shall ye do. +18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that __are__ with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, __The__ __sword__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and of Gideon. +19 ¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that __were__ with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that __were__ in their hands. +20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow __withal:__ and they cried, The sword of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and of Gideon. +21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. +22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, __and__ to the border of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath. +23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites. +24 ¶ And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. +25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply. +2 And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? __Is__ not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer? +3 God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. +4 ¶ And Gideon came to Jordan, __and__ passed over, he, and the three hundred men that __were__ with him, faint, yet pursuing __them__. +5 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they __be__ faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian. +6 ¶ And the princes of Succoth said, __Are__ the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army? +7 And Gideon said, Therefore when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers. +8 ¶ And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered __him__. +9 And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower. +10 ¶ Now Zebah and Zalmunna __were__ in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand __men__, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. +11 ¶ And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure. +12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host. +13 ¶ And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun __was__ __up__, +14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, __even__ threescore and seventeen men. +15 And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, __Are__ the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men __that__ __are__ weary? +16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. +17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city. +18 ¶ Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men __were__ __they__ whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou __art__, so __were__ they; each one resembled the children of a king. +19 And he said, They __were__ my brethren, __even__ the sons of my mother: __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you. +20 And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, __and__ slay them. But the youth drew not his sword: for he feared, because he __was__ yet a youth. +21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man __is__, __so__ __is__ his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that __were__ on their camels' necks. +22 ¶ Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. +23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall rule over you. +24 ¶ And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they __were__ Ishmaelites.) +25 And they answered, We will willingly give __them__. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey. +26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred __shekels__ of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that __was__ on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that __were__ about their camels' necks. +27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, __even__ in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house. +28 ¶ Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon. +29 ¶ And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. +30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. +31 And his concubine that __was__ in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. +32 ¶ And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites. +33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. +34 And the children of Israel remembered not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: +35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, __namely__, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying, +2 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether __is__ better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, __which__ __are__ threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I __am__ your bone and your flesh. +3 And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He __is__ our brother. +4 And they gave him threescore and ten __pieces__ of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him. +5 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, __being__ threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself. +6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that __was__ in Shechem. +7 ¶ And when they told __it__ to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you. +8 The trees went forth __on__ __a__ __time__ to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. +9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? +10 And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, __and__ reign over us. +11 But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? +12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, __and__ reign over us. +13 And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? +14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, __and__ reign over us. +15 And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, __then__ come __and__ put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. +16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands; +17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: +18 And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he __is__ your brother;) +19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, __then__ rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you: +20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech. +21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. +22 ¶ When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, +23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech: +24 That the cruelty __done__ to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren. +25 And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech. +26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him. +27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode __the__ __grapes__, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. +28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who __is__ Abimelech, and who __is__ Shechem, that we should serve him? __is__ not __he__ the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: for why should we serve him? +29 And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out. +30 ¶ And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. +31 And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee. +32 Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that __is__ with thee, and lie in wait in the field: +33 And it shall be, __that__ in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, __when__ he and the people that __is__ with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion. +34 ¶ And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that __were__ with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies. +35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that __were__ with him, from lying in wait. +36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as __if__ __they__ __were__ men. +37 And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim. +38 Then said Zebul unto him, Where __is__ now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who __is__ Abimelech, that we should serve him? __is__ not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them. +39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. +40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown __and__ wounded, __even__ unto the entering of the gate. +41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem. +42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech. +43 And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people __were__ come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. +44 And Abimelech, and the company that __was__ with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two __other__ companies ran upon all __the__ __people__ that __were__ in the fields, and slew them. +45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that __was__ therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. +46 ¶ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard __that__, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith. +47 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. +48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that __were__ with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid __it__ on his shoulder, and said unto the people that __were__ with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, __and__ do as I __have__ __done__. +49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put __them__ to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. +50 ¶ Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. +51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut __it__ to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower. +52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. +53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. +54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died. +55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place. +56 ¶ Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren: +57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim. +2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir. +3 ¶ And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years. +4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which __are__ in the land of Gilead. +5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon. +6 ¶ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and served not him. +7 And the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon. +8 And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that __were__ on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which __is__ in Gilead. +9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed. +10 ¶ And the children of Israel cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim. +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto the children of Israel, __Did__ not __I__ __deliver__ __you__ from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? +12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand. +13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more. +14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation. +15 ¶ And the children of Israel said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. +16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. +17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. +18 And the people __and__ princes of Gilead said one to another, What man __is__ __he__ that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 NOW Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he __was__ the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. +2 And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou __art__ the son of a strange woman. +3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him. +4 ¶ And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel. +5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob: +6 And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. +7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress? +8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. +9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ deliver them before me, shall I be your head? +10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words. +11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Mizpeh. +12 ¶ And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land? +13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those __lands__ again peaceably. +14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon: +15 And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon: +16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh; +17 Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken __thereto__. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not __consent:__ and Israel abode in Kadesh. +18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon __was__ the border of Moab. +19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place. +20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. +22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan. +23 So now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? +24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess. +25 And now __art__ thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them, +26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that __be__ along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover __them__ within that time? +27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. +28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him. +29 ¶ Then the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over __unto__ the children of Ammon. +30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, +31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering. +32 ¶ So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered them into his hands. +33 And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, __even__ twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. +34 ¶ And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she __was__ __his__ only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. +35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and I cannot go back. +36 And she said unto him, My father, __if__ thou hast opened thy mouth unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, __even__ of the children of Ammon. +37 And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows. +38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away __for__ two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. +39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her __according__ to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, +40 __That__ the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. +2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands. +3 And when I saw that ye delivered __me__ not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me? +4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites __are__ fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, __and__ among the Manassites. +5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was __so__, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, __Art__ thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; +6 Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce __it__ right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. +7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in __one__ __of__ the cities of Gilead. +8 ¶ And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel. +9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, __whom__ he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. +10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Beth-lehem. +11 ¶ And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. +12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun. +13 ¶ And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. +14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. +15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. +2 ¶ And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name __was__ Manoah; and his wife __was__ barren, and bare not. +3 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou __art__ barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. +4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean __thing:__ +5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. +6 ¶ Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance __was__ like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he __was__, neither told he me his name: +7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean __thing:__ for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death. +8 ¶ Then Manoah intreated the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born. +9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband __was__ not with her. +10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the __other__ day. +11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, __Art__ thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I __am__. +12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and __how__ shall we do unto him? +13 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. +14 She may not eat of any __thing__ that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean __thing:__ all that I commanded her let her observe. +15 ¶ And Manoah said unto the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. +16 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. For Manoah knew not that he __was__ an angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, What __is__ thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? +18 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it __is__ secret? +19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered __it__ upon a rock unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and __the__ __angel__ did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on. +20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on __it__, and fell on their faces to the ground. +21 But the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he __was__ an angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. +23 But his wife said unto him, If the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these __things__, nor would as at this time have told us __such__ __things__ as these. +24 ¶ And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ blessed him. +25 And the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AND Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. +2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. +3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, __Is__ __there__ never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. +4 But his father and his mother knew not that it __was__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. +5 ¶ Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. +6 And the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and __he__ __had__ nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. +7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. +8 ¶ And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, __there__ __was__ a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion. +9 And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion. +10 ¶ So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do. +11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him. +12 ¶ And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find __it__ out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: +13 But if ye cannot declare __it__ me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. +14 And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. +15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? __is__ __it__ not __so?__ +16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told __it__ me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told __it__ my father nor my mother, and shall I tell __it__ thee? +17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people. +18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What __is__ sweeter than honey? and what __is__ stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. +19 ¶ And the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house. +20 But Samson's wife was __given__ to his companion, whom he had used as his friend. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 BUT it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. +2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: __is__ not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. +3 ¶ And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure. +4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. +5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let __them__ go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards __and__ olives. +6 ¶ Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. +7 ¶ And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease. +8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam. +9 ¶ Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. +10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us. +11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines __are__ rulers over us? what __is__ this __that__ thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them. +12 And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. +13 And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock. +14 ¶ __And__ when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came mightily upon him, and the cords that __were__ upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. +15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. +16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. +17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi. +18 ¶ And he was sore athirst, and called on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? +19 But God clave an hollow place that __was__ in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which __is__ in Lehi unto this day. +20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 THEN went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her. +2 __And__ __it__ __was__ __told__ the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed __him__ in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. +3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put __them__ upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that __is__ before Hebron. +4 ¶ And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name __was__ Delilah. +5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength __lieth__, and by what __means__ we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred __pieces__ of silver. +6 ¶ And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength __lieth__, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. +7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. +8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. +9 Now __there__ __were__ men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines __be__ upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known. +10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound. +11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man. +12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines __be__ upon thee, Samson. And __there__ __were__ liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread. +13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web. +14 And she fastened __it__ with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines __be__ upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web. +15 ¶ And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart __is__ not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength __lieth__. +16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, __so__ that his soul was vexed unto death; +17 That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I __have__ __been__ a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any __other__ man. +18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand. +19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. +20 And she said, The Philistines __be__ upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was departed from him. +21 ¶ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. +22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. +23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. +24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us. +25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars. +26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. +27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines __were__ there; and __there__ __were__ upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. +28 And Samson called unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. +29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. +30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with __all__ __his__ might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that __were__ therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than __they__ which he slew in his life. +31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought __him__ up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name __was__ Micah. +2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred __shekels__ of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver __is__ with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed __be__ __thou__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, my son. +3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred __shekels__ of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. +4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred __shekels__ of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. +5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. +6 In those days __there__ __was__ no king in Israel, __but__ every man did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in his own eyes. +7 ¶ And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who __was__ a Levite, and he sojourned there. +8 And the man departed out of the city from Beth-lehem-judah to sojourn where he could find __a__ __place:__ and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. +9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I __am__ a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find __a__ __place__. +10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten __shekels__ of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in. +11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. +12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. +13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to __my__ priest. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 IN those days __there__ __was__ no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day __all__ __their__ inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. +2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there. +3 When they __were__ by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this __place?__ and what hast thou here? +4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. +5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. +6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ your way wherein ye go. +7 ¶ Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that __were__ therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and __there__ __was__ no magistrate in the land, that might put __them__ to shame in __any__ thing; and they __were__ far from the Zidonians, and had no business with __any__ man. +8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What __say__ ye? +9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it __is__ very good: and __are__ ye still? be not slothful to go, __and__ to enter to possess the land. +10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where __there__ __is__ no want of any thing that __is__ in the earth. +11 ¶ And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. +12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, __it__ __is__ behind Kirjath-jearim. +13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah. +14 ¶ Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do. +15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, __even__ unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. +16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which __were__ of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate. +17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, __and__ came in thither, __and__ took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men __that__ __were__ appointed with weapons of war. +18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? +19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: __is__ __it__ better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? +20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. +21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them. +22 ¶ __And__ when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that __were__ in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan. +23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company? +24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what __is__ this __that__ ye say unto me, What aileth thee? +25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household. +26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they __were__ too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house. +27 And they took __the__ __things__ which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people __that__ __were__ at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. +28 And __there__ __was__ no deliverer, because it __was__ far from Zidon, and they had no business with __any__ man; and it was in the valley that __lieth__ by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. +29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city __was__ Laish at the first. +30 ¶ And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. +31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND it came to pass in those days, when __there__ __was__ no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. +2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there four whole months. +3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto her, __and__ to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's house: and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. +4 And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there. +5 ¶ And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way. +6 And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry. +7 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again. +8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them. +9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home. +10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which __is__ Jerusalem; and __there__ __were__ with him two asses saddled, his concubine also __was__ with him. +11 __And__ when they __were__ by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it. +12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that __is__ not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah. +13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah. +14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them __when__ __they__ __were__ by Gibeah, which __belongeth__ to Benjamin. +15 And they turned aside thither, to go in __and__ to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for __there__ __was__ no man that took them into his house to lodging. +16 ¶ And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which __was__ also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place __were__ Benjamites. +17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou? +18 And he said unto him, We __are__ passing from Beth-lehem-judah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence __am__ I: and I went to Beth-lehem-judah, but I __am__ __now__ going to the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and there __is__ no man that receiveth me to house. +19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man __which__ __is__ with thy servants: __there__ __is__ no want of any thing. +20 And the old man said, Peace __be__ with thee; howsoever __let__ all thy wants __lie__ upon me; only lodge not in the street. +21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink. +22 ¶ __Now__ as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, __and__ beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. +23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, __nay__, I pray you, do not __so__ wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly. +24 Behold, __here__ __is__ my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. +25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. +26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord __was__, till it was light. +27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down __at__ the door of the house, and her hands __were__ upon the threshold. +28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her __up__ upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place. +29 ¶ And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, __together__ with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel. +30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak __your__ __minds__. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 THEN all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Mizpeh. +2 And the chief of all the people, __even__ of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword. +3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell __us__, how was this wickedness? +4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that __belongeth__ to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. +5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, __and__ thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. +6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. +7 Behold, ye __are__ all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel. +8 ¶ And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any __of__ __us__ go to his tent, neither will we any __of__ __us__ turn into his house. +9 But now this __shall__ __be__ the thing which we will do to Gibeah; __we__ __will__ __go__ __up__ by lot against it; +10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel. +11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. +12 ¶ And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness __is__ this that is done among you? +13 Now therefore deliver __us__ the men, the children of Belial, which __are__ in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: +14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. +15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men. +16 Among all this people __there__ __were__ seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair __breadth__, and not miss. +17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these __were__ men of war. +18 ¶ And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Judah __shall__ __go__ __up__ first. +19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. +20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah. +21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men. +22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day. +23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ until even, and asked counsel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Go up against him.) +24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. +25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword. +26 ¶ Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 And the children of Israel inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, (for the ark of the covenant of God __was__ there in those days, +28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand. +29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. +30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. +31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, __and__ were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, __and__ kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. +32 And the children of Benjamin said, They __are__ smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways. +33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, __even__ out of the meadows of Gibeah. +34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil __was__ near them. +35 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword. +36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah. +37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew __themselves__ along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. +38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city. +39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite __and__ kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as __in__ the first battle. +40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven. +41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them. +42 Therefore they turned __their__ __backs__ before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which __came__ out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them. +43 __Thus__ they inclosed the Benjamites round about, __and__ chased them, __and__ trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising. +44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these __were__ men of valour. +45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them. +46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these __were__ men of valour. +47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months. +48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of __every__ city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 NOW the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. +2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; +3 And said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel? +4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. +5 And the children of Israel said, Who __is__ __there__ among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death. +6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. +7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that we will not give them of our daughters to wives? +8 ¶ And they said, What one __is__ __there__ of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly. +9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, __there__ __were__ none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there. +10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children. +11 And this __is__ the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man. +12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which __is__ in the land of Canaan. +13 And the whole congregation sent __some__ to speak to the children of Benjamin that __were__ in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them. +14 And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not. +15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. +16 ¶ Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? +17 And they said, __There__ __must__ __be__ an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. +18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed __be__ he that giveth a wife to Benjamin. +19 Then they said, Behold, __there__ __is__ a feast of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Shiloh yearly __in__ __a__ __place__ which __is__ on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. +20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards; +21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. +22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, __that__ ye should be guilty. +23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took __them__ wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. +24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance. +25 In those days __there__ __was__ no king in Israel: every man did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in his own eyes. +:::SET BOOK Ruth +:::SET TITLE The Book of Ruth +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. +2 And the name of the man __was__ Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there. +3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. +4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one __was__ Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years. +5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. +6 ¶ Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had visited his people in giving them bread. +7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah. +8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. +9 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ grant you that ye may find rest, each __of__ __you__ in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept. +10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people. +11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? __are__ there yet __any__ __more__ sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? +12 Turn again, my daughters, go __your__ __way;__ for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, __if__ I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons; +13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is gone out against me. +14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her. +15 And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law. +16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, __or__ to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people __shall__ __be__ my people, and thy God my God: +17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do so to me, and more also, __if__ __ought__ but death part thee and me. +18 When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her. +19 ¶ So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, __Is__ this Naomi? +20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. +21 I went out full, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath brought me home again empty: why __then__ call ye me Naomi, seeing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? +22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Beth-lehem in the beginning of barley harvest. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name __was__ Boaz. +2 And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after __him__ in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. +3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field __belonging__ unto Boaz, who __was__ of the kindred of Elimelech. +4 ¶ And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __be__ with you. And they answered him, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bless thee. +5 Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel __is__ this? +6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It __is__ the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: +7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house. +8 Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: +9 __Let__ thine eyes __be__ on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of __that__ which the young men have drawn. +10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I __am__ a stranger? +11 And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and __how__ thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. +12 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. +13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens. +14 And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched __corn__, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left. +15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: +16 And let fall also __some__ of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave __them__, that she may glean __them__, and rebuke her not. +17 So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley. +18 ¶ And she took __it__ up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed. +19 And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day __is__ Boaz. +20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed __be__ he of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man __is__ near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. +21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. +22 And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, __It__ __is__ good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field. +23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THEN Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? +2 And now __is__ not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor. +3 Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: __but__ make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking. +4 And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do. +5 And she said unto her, All that thou sayest unto me I will do. +6 ¶ And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her. +7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down. +8 ¶ And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet. +9 And he said, Who __art__ thou? And she answered, I __am__ Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou __art__ a near kinsman. +10 And he said, Blessed __be__ thou of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, my daughter: __for__ thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich. +11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou __art__ a virtuous woman. +12 And now it is true that I __am__ __thy__ near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I. +13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, __that__ if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth: lie down until the morning. +14 ¶ And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor. +15 Also he said, Bring the vail that __thou__ __hast__ upon thee, and hold it. And when she held it, he measured six __measures__ of barley, and laid __it__ on her: and she went into the city. +16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who __art__ thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her. +17 And she said, These six __measures__ of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law. +18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 THEN went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. +2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down. +3 And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which __was__ our brother Elimelech's: +4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy __it__ before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem __it__, redeem __it:__ but if thou wilt not redeem __it__, __then__ tell me, that I may know: for __there__ __is__ none to redeem __it__ beside thee; and I __am__ after thee. And he said, I will redeem __it__. +5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy __it__ also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance. +6 ¶ And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem __it__ for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem __it__. +7 Now this __was__ __the__ __manner__ in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave __it__ to his neighbour: and this __was__ a testimony in Israel. +8 Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy __it__ for thee. So he drew off his shoe. +9 ¶ And Boaz said unto the elders, and __unto__ all the people, Ye __are__ witnesses this day, that I have bought all that __was__ Elimelech's, and all that __was__ Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi. +10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye __are__ witnesses this day. +11 And all the people that __were__ in the gate, and the elders, said, __We__ __are__ witnesses. The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem: +12 And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall give thee of this young woman. +13 ¶ So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave her conception, and she bare a son. +14 And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. +15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of __thy__ life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him. +16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. +17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he __is__ the father of Jesse, the father of David. +18 ¶ Now these __are__ the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, +19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, +20 And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, +21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, +22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David. +:::SET BOOK 1 Samuel +:::SET TITLE The First Book of Samuel, Otherwise Called, the First Book of the Kings +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name __was__ Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: +2 And he had two wives; the name of the one __was__ Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. +3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __were__ there. +4 ¶ And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: +5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had shut up her womb. +6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had shut up her womb. +7 And __as__ he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. +8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? __am__ not I better to thee than ten sons? +9 ¶ So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 And she __was__ in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and wept sore. +11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head. +12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that Eli marked her mouth. +13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. +14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee. +15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I __am__ a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto. +17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant __thee__ thy petition that thou hast asked of him. +18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more __sad__. +19 ¶ And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ remembered her. +20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, __saying__, Because I have asked him of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. +22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, __I__ __will__ __not__ __go__ __up__ until the child be weaned, and __then__ I will bring him, that he may appear before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and there abide for ever. +23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him. +24 ¶ And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Shiloh: and the child __was__ young. +25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli. +26 And she said, Oh my lord, __as__ thy soul liveth, my lord, I __am__ the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 For this child I prayed; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given me my petition which I asked of him: +28 Therefore also I have lent him to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And he worshipped the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ there. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, mine horn is exalted in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. +2 __There__ __is__ none holy as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for __there__ __is__ none beside thee: neither __is__ __there__ any rock like our God. +3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let __not__ arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. +4 The bows of the mighty men __are__ broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength. +5 __They__ __that__ __were__ full have hired out themselves for bread; and __they__ __that__ __were__ hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble. +6 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. +8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, __and__ lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set __them__ among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth __are__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s, and he hath set the world upon them. +9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. +10 The adversaries of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed. +11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ before Eli the priest. +12 ¶ Now the sons of Eli __were__ sons of Belial; they knew not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And the priests' custom with the people __was__, __that__, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; +14 And he struck __it__ into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither. +15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. +16 And __if__ any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and __then__ take __as__ __much__ as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, __Nay;__ but thou shalt give __it__ __me__ now: and if not, I will take __it__ by force. +17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for men abhorred the offering of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 ¶ But Samuel ministered before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __being__ a child, girded with a linen ephod. +19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought __it__ to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. +20 ¶ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And they went unto their own home. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 ¶ Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled __at__ the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people. +24 Nay, my sons; for __it__ __is__ no good report that I hear: ye make the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s people to transgress. +25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ would slay them. +26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and also with men. +27 ¶ And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house? +28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel __to__ __be__ my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel? +29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded __in__ __my__ habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? +30 Wherefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel saith, I said indeed __that__ thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. +31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house. +32 And thou shalt see an enemy __in__ __my__ habitation, in all __the__ __wealth__ which __God__ shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever. +33 And the man of thine, __whom__ I shall not cut off from mine altar, __shall__ __be__ to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age. +34 And this __shall__ __be__ a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them. +35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, __that__ shall do according to __that__ which __is__ in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever. +36 And it shall come to pass, __that__ every one that is left in thine house shall come __and__ crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND the child Samuel ministered unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ before Eli. And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was precious in those days; __there__ __was__ no open vision. +2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli __was__ laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, __that__ he could not see; +3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, where the ark of God __was__, and Samuel was laid down __to__ __sleep;__ +4 That the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ called Samuel: and he answered, Here __am__ I. +5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here __am__ I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down. +6 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here __am__ I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again. +7 Now Samuel did not yet know the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, neither was the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ yet revealed unto him. +8 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here __am__ I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had called the child. +9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place. +10 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth. +11 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. +12 In that day I will perform against Eli all __things__ which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. +13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. +14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever. +15 ¶ And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision. +16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here __am__ I. +17 And he said, What __is__ the thing that __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide __it__ not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide __any__ thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee. +18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: let him do what seemeth him good. +19 ¶ And Samuel grew, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. +20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel __was__ established __to__ __be__ a prophet of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared again in Shiloh: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek. +2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men. +3 ¶ And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies. +4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, which dwelleth __between__ the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, __were__ there with the ark of the covenant of God. +5 And when the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again. +6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What __meaneth__ the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was come into the camp. +7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore. +8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these __are__ the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness. +9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight. +10 ¶ And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. +11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. +12 ¶ And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head. +13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told __it__, all the city cried out. +14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What __meaneth__ the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli. +15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. +16 And the man said unto Eli, I __am__ he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son? +17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. +18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years. +19 ¶ And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, __near__ to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her. +20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard __it__. +21 And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband. +22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. +2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. +3 ¶ And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon __was__ fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. +4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon __was__ fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands __were__ cut off upon the threshold; only __the__ __stump__ __of__ Dagon was left to him. +5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day. +6 But the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, __even__ Ashdod and the coasts thereof. +7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that __it__ __was__ so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. +8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about __thither__. +9 And it was __so__, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. +10 ¶ Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people. +11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. +12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was in the country of the Philistines seven months. +2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place. +3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you. +4 Then said they, What __shall__ __be__ the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, __according__ __to__ the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague __was__ on you all, and on your lords. +5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land. +6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed? +7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them: +8 And take the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him __for__ a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go. +9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, __then__ he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that __it__ __is__ not his hand __that__ smote us; it __was__ a chance __that__ happened to us. +10 ¶ And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home: +11 And they laid the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods. +12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Beth-shemesh, __and__ went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside __to__ the right hand or __to__ the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh. +13 And __they__ __of__ Beth-shemesh __were__ reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see __it__. +14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth-shemite, and stood there, where __there__ __was__ a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 And the Levites took down the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the coffer that __was__ with it, wherein the jewels of gold __were__, and put __them__ on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen __it__, they returned to Ekron the same day. +17 And these __are__ the golden emerods which the Philistines returned __for__ a trespass offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; +18 And the golden mice, __according__ __to__ the number of all the cities of the Philistines __belonging__ to the five lords, __both__ of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great __stone__ __of__ Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __which__ __stone__ __remaineth__ unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite. +19 ¶ And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had smitten __many__ of the people with a great slaughter. +20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God? and to whom shall he go up from us? +21 ¶ And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; come ye down, __and__ fetch it up to you. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 AND the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 ¶ And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with all your hearts, __then__ put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. +4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ only. +5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured __it__ out before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh. +7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard __it__, they were afraid of the Philistines. +8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines. +9 ¶ And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered __it__ __for__ a burnt offering wholly unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and Samuel cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for Israel; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heard him. +10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel. +11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until __they__ __came__ under Beth-car. +12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set __it__ between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ helped us. +13 ¶ So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. +14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites. +15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. +16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places. +17 And his return __was__ to Ramah; for there __was__ his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. +2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: __they__ __were__ judges in Beer-sheba. +3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. +4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, +5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. +6 ¶ But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. +8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. +9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. +10 ¶ And Samuel told all the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto the people that asked of him a king. +11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint __them__ for himself, for his chariots, and __to__ __be__ his horsemen; and __some__ shall run before his chariots. +12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and __will__ __set__ __them__ to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. +13 And he will take your daughters __to__ __be__ confectionaries, and __to__ __be__ cooks, and __to__ __be__ bakers. +14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, __even__ the best __of__ __them__, and give __them__ to his servants. +15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. +16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put __them__ to his work. +17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. +18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not hear you in that day. +19 ¶ Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; +20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. +21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 NOW there was a man of Benjamin, whose name __was__ Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power. +2 And he had a son, whose name __was__ Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and __there__ __was__ not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward __he__ __was__ higher than any of the people. +3 And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses. +4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found __them__ not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and __there__ __they__ __were__ not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found __them__ not. +5 __And__ when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that __was__ with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave __caring__ for the asses, and take thought for us. +6 And he said unto him, Behold now, __there__ __is__ in this city a man of God, and __he__ __is__ an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go. +7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, __if__ we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and __there__ __is__ not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we? +8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: __that__ will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. +9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for __he__ __that__ __is__ now __called__ a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) +10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God __was__. +11 ¶ __And__ as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here? +12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, __he__ __is__ before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for __there__ __is__ a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place: +13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; __and__ afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him. +14 And they went up into the city: __and__ when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place. +15 ¶ Now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying, +16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him __to__ __be__ captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me. +17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people. +18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house __is__. +19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I __am__ the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that __is__ in thine heart. +20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom __is__ all the desire of Israel? __Is__ __it__ not on thee, and on all thy father's house? +21 And Saul answered and said, __Am__ not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me? +22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which __were__ about thirty persons. +23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee. +24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and __that__ which __was__ upon it, and set __it__ before Saul. And __Samuel__ said, Behold that which is left! set __it__ before thee, __and__ eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day. +25 ¶ And when they were come down from the high place into the city, __Samuel__ communed with Saul upon the top of the house. +26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad. +27 __And__ as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 THEN Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured __it__ upon his head, and kissed him, and said, __Is__ __it__ not because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath anointed thee __to__ __be__ captain over his inheritance? +2 When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? +3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: +4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two __loaves__ of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands. +5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where __is__ the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: +6 And the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man. +7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, __that__ thou do as occasion serve thee; for God __is__ with thee. +8 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, __and__ to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do. +9 ¶ And it was __so__, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day. +10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them. +11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What __is__ this __that__ is come unto the son of Kish? __Is__ Saul also among the prophets? +12 And one of the same place answered and said, But who __is__ their father? Therefore it became a proverb, __Is__ Saul also among the prophets? +13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place. +14 ¶ And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that __they__ __were__ no where, we came to Samuel. +15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you. +16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not. +17 ¶ And Samuel called the people together unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to Mizpeh; +18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, __and__ of them that oppressed you: +19 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, __Nay__, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by your tribes, and by your thousands. +20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken. +21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found. +22 Therefore they inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ further, if the man should yet come thither. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff. +23 And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. +24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath chosen, that __there__ __is__ none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king. +25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote __it__ in a book, and laid __it__ up before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. +26 ¶ And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched. +27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 THEN Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. +2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this __condition__ will I make __a__ __covenant__ with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it __for__ a reproach upon all Israel. +3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if __there__ __be__ no man to save us, we will come out to thee. +4 ¶ Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept. +5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What __aileth__ the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh. +6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly. +7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent __them__ throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ fell on the people, and they came out with one consent. +8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. +9 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, To morrow, by __that__ __time__ the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed __it__ to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad. +10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you. +11 And it was __so__ on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together. +12 ¶ And the people said unto Samuel, Who __is__ he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death. +13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath wrought salvation in Israel. +14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there. +15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you. +2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons __are__ with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. +3 Behold, here I __am:__ witness against me before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received __any__ bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. +4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand. +5 And he said unto them, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ witness against you, and his anointed __is__ witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, __He__ __is__ witness. +6 ¶ And Samuel said unto the people, __It__ __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. +7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of all the righteous acts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he did to you and to your fathers. +8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place. +9 And when they forgat the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. +10 And they cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe. +12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God __was__ your king. +13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, __and__ whom ye have desired! and, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath set a king over you. +14 If ye will fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God: +15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but rebel against the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, then shall the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be against you, as __it__ __was__ against your fathers. +16 ¶ Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will do before your eyes. +17 __Is__ __it__ not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness __is__ great, which ye have done in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in asking you a king. +18 So Samuel called unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ and Samuel. +19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins __this__ evil, to ask us a king. +20 ¶ And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with all your heart; +21 And turn ye not aside: for __then__ __should__ __ye__ __go__ after vain __things__, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they __are__ vain. +22 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to make you his people. +23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: +24 Only fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great __things__ he hath done for you. +25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 SAUL reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, +2 Saul chose him three thousand __men__ of Israel; __whereof__ two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. +3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that __was__ in Geba, and the Philistines heard __of__ __it__. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. +4 And all Israel heard say __that__ Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and __that__ Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal. +5 ¶ And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which __is__ on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven. +6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits. +7 And __some__ __of__ the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he __was__ yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. +8 ¶ And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel __had__ __appointed:__ but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. +9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering. +10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him. +11 ¶ And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and __that__ thou camest not within the days appointed, and __that__ the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash; +12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering. +13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. +14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded him __to__ __be__ captain over his people, because thou hast not kept __that__ which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded thee. +15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people __that__ __were__ present with him, about six hundred men. +16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people __that__ __were__ present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. +17 ¶ And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way __that__ __leadeth__ __to__ Ophrah, unto the land of Shual: +18 And another company turned the way __to__ Beth-horon: and another company turned __to__ the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. +19 ¶ Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make __them__ swords or spears: +20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. +21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. +22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that __were__ with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. +23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 NOW it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that __is__ on the other side. But he told not his father. +2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which __is__ in Migron: and the people that __were__ with him __were__ about six hundred men; +3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I-chabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone. +4 ¶ And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, __there__ __was__ a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one __was__ Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. +5 The forefront of the one __was__ situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah. +6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will work for us: for __there__ __is__ no restraint to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to save by many or by few. +7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that __is__ in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I __am__ with thee according to thy heart. +8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto __these__ men, and we will discover ourselves unto them. +9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them. +10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath delivered them into our hand: and this __shall__ __be__ a sign unto us. +11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves. +12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath delivered them into the hand of Israel. +13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him. +14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, __which__ a yoke __of__ __oxen__ __might__ __plow__. +15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling. +16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down __one__ __another__. +17 Then said Saul unto the people that __were__ with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer __were__ not __there__. +18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel. +19 ¶ And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that __was__ in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand. +20 And Saul and all the people that __were__ with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, __and__ __there__ __was__ a very great discomfiture. +21 Moreover the Hebrews __that__ were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp __from__ __the__ __country__ round about, even they also __turned__ to be with the Israelites that __were__ with Saul and Jonathan. +22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, __when__ they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. +23 So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven. +24 ¶ And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed __be__ the man that eateth __any__ food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted __any__ food. +25 And all __they__ __of__ the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. +26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath. +27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that __was__ in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. +28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed __be__ the man that eateth __any__ food this day. And the people were faint. +29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. +30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? +31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint. +32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew __them__ on the ground: and the people did eat __them__ with the blood. +33 ¶ Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day. +34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay __them__ here, and eat; and sin not against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew __them__ there. +35 And Saul built an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: the same was the first altar that he built unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +36 ¶ And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God. +37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day. +38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day. +39 For, __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But __there__ __was__ not a man among all the people __that__ answered him. +40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee. +41 Therefore Saul said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Give a perfect __lot__. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped. +42 And Saul said, Cast __lots__ between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken. +43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that __was__ in mine hand, __and__, lo, I must die. +44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. +45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not. +46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place. +47 ¶ So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed __them__. +48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them. +49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters __were__ __these;__ the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal: +50 And the name of Saul's wife __was__ Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host __was__ Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. +51 And Kish __was__ the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner __was__ the son of Abiel. +52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 SAMUEL also said unto Saul, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent me to anoint thee __to__ __be__ king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, I remember __that__ which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid __wait__ for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. +3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. +4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. +5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. +6 ¶ And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. +7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah __until__ thou comest to Shur, that __is__ over against Egypt. +8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. +9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all __that__ __was__ good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing __that__ __was__ vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. +10 ¶ Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Samuel, saying, +11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul __to__ __be__ king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all night. +12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal. +13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed __be__ thou of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I have performed the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 And Samuel said, What __meaneth__ then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? +15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed. +16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on. +17 And Samuel said, When thou __wast__ little in thine own sight, __wast__ thou not __made__ the head of the tribes of Israel, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ anointed thee king over Israel? +18 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. +19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have gone the way which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. +21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in Gilgal. +22 And Samuel said, Hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __as__ __great__ delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? Behold, to obey __is__ better than sacrifice, __and__ to hearken than the fat of rams. +23 For rebellion __is__ __as__ the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness __is__ __as__ iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he hath also rejected thee from __being__ king. +24 ¶ And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. +25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath rejected thee from being king over Israel. +27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. +28 And Samuel said unto him, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, __that__ __is__ better than thou. +29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he __is__ not a man, that he should repent. +30 Then he said, I have sinned: __yet__ honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +32 ¶ Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. +33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Gilgal. +34 ¶ Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. +35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ repented that he had made Saul king over Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. +2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear __it__, he will kill me. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me __him__ whom I name unto thee. +4 And Samuel did that which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably? +5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. +6 ¶ And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed __is__ before him. +7 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ __seeth__ not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ looketh on the heart. +8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ chosen this. +9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ chosen this. +10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not chosen these. +11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all __thy__ children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither. +12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he __was__ ruddy, __and__ withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Arise, anoint him: for this __is__ he. +13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. +14 ¶ But the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ troubled him. +15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. +16 Let our lord now command thy servants, __which__ __are__ before thee, to seek out a man, __who__ __is__ a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. +17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring __him__ to me. +18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, __that__ __is__ cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ with him. +19 ¶ Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which __is__ with the sheep. +20 And Jesse took an ass __laden__ with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent __them__ by David his son unto Saul. +21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer. +22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight. +23 And it came to pass, when the __evil__ spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 NOW the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which __belongeth__ to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. +2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. +3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and __there__ __was__ a valley between them. +4 ¶ And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height __was__ six cubits and a span. +5 And __he__ __had__ an helmet of brass upon his head, and he __was__ armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat __was__ five thousand shekels of brass. +6 And __he__ __had__ greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. +7 And the staff of his spear __was__ like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head __weighed__ six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him. +8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set __your__ battle in array? __am__ not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. +9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. +10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. +11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. +12 ¶ Now David __was__ the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name __was__ Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men __for__ an old man in the days of Saul. +13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went __and__ followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle __were__ Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. +14 And David __was__ the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. +15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem. +16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. +17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched __corn__, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren; +18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of __their__ thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge. +19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, __were__ in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. +20 ¶ And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. +21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army. +22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren. +23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard __them__. +24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. +25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, __that__ the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel. +26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who __is__ this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? +27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him. +28 ¶ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle. +29 And David said, What have I now done? __Is__ __there__ not a cause? +30 ¶ And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner. +31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed __them__ before Saul: and he sent for him. +32 ¶ And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. +33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou __art__ __but__ a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. +34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: +35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered __it__ out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught __him__ by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. +36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. +37 David said moreover, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be with thee. +38 ¶ And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. +39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved __it__. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved __them__. And David put them off him. +40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling __was__ in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine. +41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield __went__ before him. +42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was __but__ a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. +43 And the Philistine said unto David, __Am__ I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. +44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. +45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. +46 This day will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. +47 And all this assembly shall know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s, and he will give you into our hands. +48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. +49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang __it__, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. +50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but __there__ __was__ no sword in the hand of David. +51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled. +52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron. +53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents. +54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent. +55 ¶ And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son __is__ this youth? And Abner said, __As__ thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. +56 And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling __is__. +57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. +58 And Saul said to him, Whose son __art__ thou, __thou__ young man? And David answered, __I__ __am__ the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AND it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. +2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. +3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. +4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that __was__ upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle. +5 ¶ And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, __and__ behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants. +6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick. +7 And the women answered __one__ __another__ as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. +8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed __but__ thousands: and __what__ can he have more but the kingdom? +9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward. +10 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and __there__ __was__ a javelin in Saul's hand. +11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall __with__ __it__. And David avoided out of his presence twice. +12 ¶ And Saul was afraid of David, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with him, and was departed from Saul. +13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. +14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ with him. +15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him. +16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them. +17 ¶ And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. +18 And David said unto Saul, Who __am__ I? and what __is__ my life, __or__ my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king? +19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife. +20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. +21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in __the__ __one__ __of__ the twain. +22 ¶ And Saul commanded his servants, __saying__, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law. +23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you __a__ light __thing__ to be a king's son in law, seeing that I __am__ a poor man, and lightly esteemed? +24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. +25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. +26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired. +27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. +28 ¶ And Saul saw and knew that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ with David, and __that__ Michal Saul's daughter loved him. +29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually. +30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, __that__ David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. +2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret __place__, and hide thyself: +3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou __art__, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee. +4 ¶ And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works __have__ __been__ to thee-ward very good: +5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest __it__, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause? +6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, he shall not be slain. +7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past. +8 ¶ And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him. +9 And the evil spirit from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with __his__ hand. +10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. +11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. +12 ¶ So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. +13 And Michal took an image, and laid __it__ in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' __hair__ for his bolster, and covered __it__ with a cloth. +14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He __is__ sick. +15 And Saul sent the messengers __again__ to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. +16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, __there__ __was__ an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' __hair__ for his bolster. +17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee? +18 ¶ So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. +19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David __is__ at Naioth in Ramah. +20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing __as__ appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. +21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. +22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that __is__ in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where __are__ Samuel and David? And __one__ said, Behold, __they__ __be__ at Naioth in Ramah. +23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. +24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, __Is__ Saul also among the prophets? +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what __is__ mine iniquity? and what __is__ my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life? +2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it __is__ not __so__. +3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, and __as__ thy soul liveth, __there__ __is__ but a step between me and death. +4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do __it__ for thee. +5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow __is__ the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third __day__ at even. +6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked __leave__ of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for __there__ __is__ a yearly sacrifice there for all the family. +7 If he say thus, __It__ __is__ well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, __then__ be sure that evil is determined by him. +8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father? +9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee? +10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what __if__ thy father answer thee roughly? +11 ¶ And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field. +12 And Jonathan said unto David, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, __or__ the third __day__, and, behold, __if__ __there__ __be__ good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee; +13 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father __to__ __do__ thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be with thee, as he hath been with my father. +14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I die not: +15 But __also__ thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth. +16 So Jonathan made __a__ __covenant__ with the house of David, __saying__, Let the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ even require __it__ at the hand of David's enemies. +17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul. +18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow __is__ the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. +19 And __when__ thou hast stayed three days, __then__ thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was __in__ __hand__, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel. +20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side __thereof__, as though I shot at a mark. +21 And, behold, I will send a lad, __saying__, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows __are__ on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for __there__ __is__ peace to thee, and no hurt; __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth. +22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows __are__ beyond thee; go thy way: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sent thee away. +23 And __as__ __touching__ the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __be__ between thee and me for ever. +24 ¶ So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat. +25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, __even__ upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty. +26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he __is__ not clean; surely he __is__ not clean. +27 And it came to pass on the morrow, __which__ __was__ the second __day__ of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day? +28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked __leave__ of me __to__ __go__ to Beth-lehem: +29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me __to__ __be__ __there:__ and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table. +30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious __woman__, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness? +31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die. +32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done? +33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David. +34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame. +35 ¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him. +36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. __And__ as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. +37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, __Is__ not the arrow beyond thee? +38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. +39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter. +40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry __them__ to the city. +41 ¶ __And__ as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of __a__ __place__ toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded. +42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 THEN came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why __art__ thou alone, and no man with thee? +2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed __my__ servants to such and such a place. +3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give __me__ five __loaves__ __of__ bread in mine hand, or what there is present. +4 And the priest answered David, and said, __There__ __is__ no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. +5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women __have__ __been__ kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and __the__ __bread__ __is__ in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel. +6 So the priest gave him hallowed __bread:__ for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. +7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul __was__ there that day, detained before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and his name __was__ Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that __belonged__ to Saul. +8 ¶ And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste. +9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it __is__ __here__ wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take __it:__ for __there__ __is__ no other save that here. And David said, __There__ __is__ none like that; give it me. +10 ¶ And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. +11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, __Is__ not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands? +12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. +13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. +14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore __then__ have ye brought him to me? +15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this __fellow__ to play the mad man in my presence? shall this __fellow__ come into my house? +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 DAVID therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard __it__, they went down thither to him. +2 And every one __that__ __was__ in distress, and every one that __was__ in debt, and every one __that__ __was__ discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. +3 ¶ And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, __and__ __be__ with you, till I know what God will do for me. +4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold. +5 ¶ And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth. +6 ¶ When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that __were__ with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants __were__ standing about him;) +7 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, __and__ make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds; +8 That all of you have conspired against me, and __there__ __is__ none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and __there__ __is__ none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? +9 ¶ Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. +10 And he inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. +11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that __were__ in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. +12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I __am__, my lord. +13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? +14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who __is__ __so__ faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house? +15 Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute __any__ thing unto his servant, __nor__ to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more. +16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house. +17 ¶ And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; because their hand also __is__ with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. +19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword. +20 ¶ And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. +21 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s priests. +22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew __it__ that day, when Doeg the Edomite __was__ there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned __the__ __death__ of all the persons of thy father's house. +23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou __shalt__ __be__ in safeguard. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 THEN they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. +2 Therefore David inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah. +3 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? +4 Then David inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ yet again. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand. +5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. +6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, __that__ he came down __with__ an ephod in his hand. +7 ¶ And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars. +8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. +9 ¶ And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. +10 Then said David, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. +11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, He will come down. +12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, They will deliver __thee__ up. +13 ¶ Then David and his men, __which__ __were__ about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth. +14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand. +15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David __was__ in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood. +16 ¶ And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. +17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth. +18 And they two made a covenant before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house. +19 ¶ Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which __is__ on the south of Jeshimon? +20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part __shall__ __be__ to deliver him into the king's hand. +21 And Saul said, Blessed __be__ ye of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for ye have compassion on me. +22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, __and__ who hath seen him there: for it is told me __that__ he dealeth very subtilly. +23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah. +24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men __were__ in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon. +25 Saul also and his men went to seek __him__. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard __that__, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. +26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them. +27 ¶ But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land. +28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth. +29 ¶ And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AND it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David __is__ in the wilderness of En-gedi. +2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. +3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where __was__ a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave. +4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. +5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt. +6 And he said unto his men, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he __is__ the anointed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on __his__ way. +8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself. +9 ¶ And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt? +10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and __some__ bade __me__ kill thee: but __mine__ __eye__ spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed. +11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that __there__ __is__ neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it. +12 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ judge between me and thee, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. +13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. +14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. +15 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand. +16 ¶ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, __Is__ this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. +17 And he said to David, Thou __art__ more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. +18 And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not. +19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day. +20 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand. +21 Swear now therefore unto me by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house. +22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 AND Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. +2 And __there__ __was__ a man in Maon, whose possessions __were__ in Carmel; and the man __was__ very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. +3 Now the name of the man __was__ Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and __she__ __was__ a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man __was__ churlish and evil in his doings; and he __was__ of the house of Caleb. +4 ¶ And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. +5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: +6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth __in__ __prosperity__, Peace __be__ both to thee, and peace __be__ to thine house, and peace __be__ unto all that thou hast. +7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. +8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David. +9 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. +10 ¶ And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who __is__ David? and who __is__ the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master. +11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give __it__ unto men, whom I know not whence they __be?__ +12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings. +13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff. +14 ¶ But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. +15 But the men __were__ very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: +16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. +17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he __is__ __such__ a son of Belial, that __a__ __man__ cannot speak to him. +18 ¶ Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched __corn__, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid __them__ on asses. +19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. +20 And it was __so__, __as__ she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them. +21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this __fellow__ hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that __pertained__ unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good. +22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that __pertain__ to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. +23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, +24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, __upon__ me __let__ __this__ iniquity __be:__ and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid. +25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, __even__ Nabal: for as his name __is__, so __is__ he; Nabal __is__ his name, and folly __is__ with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. +26 Now therefore, my lord, __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, and __as__ thy soul liveth, seeing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath withholden thee from coming to __shed__ blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. +27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. +28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and evil hath not been found in thee __all__ thy days. +29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, __as__ __out__ of the middle of a sling. +30 And it shall come to pass, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; +31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid. +32 ¶ And David said to Abigail, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: +33 And blessed __be__ thy advice, and blessed __be__ thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to __shed__ blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand. +34 For in very deed, __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. +35 So David received of her hand __that__ which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person. +36 ¶ And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart __was__ merry within him, for he __was__ very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. +37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became __as__ a stone. +38 And it came to pass about ten days __after__, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smote Nabal, that he died. +39 ¶ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. +40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife. +41 And she arose, and bowed herself on __her__ face to the earth, and said, Behold, __let__ thine handmaid __be__ a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. +42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. +43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. +44 ¶ But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which __was__ of Gallim. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 AND the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, __which__ __is__ before Jeshimon? +2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. +3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which __is__ before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness. +4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed. +5 ¶ And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him. +6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee. +7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him. +8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not __smite__ him the second time. +9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed, and be guiltless? +10 David said furthermore, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish. +11 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that __is__ at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go. +12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw __it__, nor knew __it__, neither awaked: for they __were__ all asleep; because a deep sleep from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was fallen upon them. +13 ¶ Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space __being__ between them: +14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who __art__ thou __that__ criest to the king? +15 And David said to Abner, __Art__ not thou a __valiant__ man? and who __is__ like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord. +16 This thing __is__ not good that thou hast done. __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, ye __are__ worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed. And now see where the king's spear __is__, and the cruse of water that __was__ at his bolster. +17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, __Is__ this thy voice, my son David? And David said, __It__ __is__ my voice, my lord, O king. +18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil __is__ in mine hand? +19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if __they__ __be__ the children of men, cursed __be__ they before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Go, serve other gods. +20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains. +21 ¶ Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly. +22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it. +23 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered thee into __my__ hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed. +24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation. +25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed __be__ thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great __things__, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 AND David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: __there__ __is__ nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. +2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that __were__ with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath. +3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, __even__ David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife. +4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him. +5 ¶ And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee? +6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day. +7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. +8 ¶ And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those __nations__ __were__ of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt. +9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish. +10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites. +11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring __tidings__ to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so __will__ __be__ his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines. +12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 AND it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men. +2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever. +3 ¶ Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. +4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa. +5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. +6 And when Saul inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. +7 ¶ Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, __there__ __is__ a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor. +8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me __him__ up, whom I shall name unto thee. +9 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die? +10 And Saul sware to her by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing. +11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel. +12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou __art__ Saul. +13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth. +14 And he said unto her, What form __is__ he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he __is__ covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it __was__ Samuel, and he stooped with __his__ face to the ground, and bowed himself. +15 ¶ And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. +16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy? +17 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, __even__ to David: +18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ done this thing unto thee this day. +19 Moreover the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow __shalt__ thou and thy sons __be__ with me: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines. +20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night. +21 ¶ And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me. +22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way. +23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed. +24 And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded __it__, and did bake unleavened bread thereof: +25 And she brought __it__ before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 NOW the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which __is__ in Jezreel. +2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish. +3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What __do__ these Hebrews __here?__ And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, __Is__ not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell __unto__ __me__ unto this day? +4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? __should__ __it__ not __be__ with the heads of these men? +5 __Is__ not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands? +6 ¶ Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host __is__ good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not. +7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines. +8 ¶ And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king? +9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou __art__ good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle. +10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart. +11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 AND it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; +2 And had taken the women captives, that __were__ therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried __them__ away, and went on their way. +3 ¶ So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, __it__ __was__ burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives. +4 Then David and the people that __were__ with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. +5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. +6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God. +7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. +8 And David inquired at the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake __them__, and without fail recover __all__. +9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that __were__ with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed. +10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor. +11 ¶ And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water; +12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk __any__ water, three days and three nights. +13 And David said unto him, To whom __belongest__ thou? and whence __art__ thou? And he said, I __am__ a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick. +14 We made an invasion __upon__ the south of the Cherethites, and upon __the__ __coast__ which __belongeth__ to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire. +15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company. +16 ¶ And when he had brought him down, behold, __they__ __were__ spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. +17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled. +18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. +19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any __thing__ that they had taken to them: David recovered all. +20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, __which__ they drave before those __other__ cattle, and said, This __is__ David's spoil. +21 ¶ And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that __were__ with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them. +22 Then answered all the wicked men and __men__ of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them __ought__ of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead __them__ away, and depart. +23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand. +24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part __is__ that goeth down to the battle, so __shall__ his part __be__ that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike. +25 And it was __so__ from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day. +26 ¶ And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, __even__ to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; +27 To __them__ which __were__ in Beth-el, and to __them__ which __were__ in south Ramoth, and to __them__ which __were__ in Jattir, +28 And to __them__ which __were__ in Aroer, and to __them__ which __were__ in Siphmoth, and to __them__ which __were__ in Eshtemoa, +29 And to __them__ which __were__ in Rachal, and to __them__ which __were__ in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to __them__ which __were__ in the cities of the Kenites, +30 And to __them__ which __were__ in Hormah, and to __them__ which __were__ in Chor-ashan, and to __them__ which __were__ in Athach, +31 And to __them__ which __were__ in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 NOW the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. +2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons. +3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. +4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. +5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him. +6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together. +7 ¶ And when the men of Israel that __were__ on the other side of the valley, and __they__ that __were__ on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. +8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. +9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish __it__ __in__ the house of their idols, and among the people. +10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. +11 ¶ And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul; +12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. +13 And they took their bones, and buried __them__ under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. +:::SET BOOK 2 Samuel +:::SET TITLE The Second Book of Samuel, Otherwise Called, the Second Book of the Kings +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; +2 It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and __so__ it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance. +3 And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped. +4 And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also. +5 And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead? +6 And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him. +7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here __am__ I. +8 And he said unto me, Who __art__ thou? And I answered him, I __am__ an Amalekite. +9 He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life __is__ yet whole in me. +10 So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that __was__ upon his head, and the bracelet that __was__ on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord. +11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that __were__ with him: +12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. +13 ¶ And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence __art__ thou? And he answered, I __am__ the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. +14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed? +15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, __and__ fall upon him. And he smote him that he died. +16 And David said unto him, Thy blood __be__ upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed. +17 ¶ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: +18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah __the__ __use__ __of__ the bow: behold, __it__ __is__ written in the book of Jasher.) +19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! +20 Tell __it__ not in Gath, publish __it__ not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. +21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, __let__ __there__ __be__ no dew, neither __let__ __there__ __be__ rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, __as__ __though__ __he__ __had__ not __been__ anointed with oil. +22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty. +23 Saul and Jonathan __were__ lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. +24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with __other__ delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel. +25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, __thou__ __wast__ slain in thine high places. +26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. +27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished! +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND it came to pass after this, that David inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron. +2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite. +3 And his men that __were__ with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron. +4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, __That__ the men of Jabesh-gilead __were__ __they__ that buried Saul. +5 ¶ And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them, Blessed __be__ ye of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, __even__ unto Saul, and have buried him. +6 And now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing. +7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them. +8 ¶ But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; +9 And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. +10 Ish-bosheth Saul's son __was__ forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. +11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months. +12 ¶ And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. +13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool. +14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise. +15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which __pertained__ to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David. +16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and __thrust__ his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which __is__ in Gibeon. +17 And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David. +18 ¶ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel __was__ __as__ light of foot as a wild roe. +19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner. +20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, __Art__ thou Asahel? And he answered, I __am__. +21 And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him. +22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother? +23 Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth __rib__, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, __that__ as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still. +24 Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that __lieth__ before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. +25 ¶ And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill. +26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren? +27 And Joab said, __As__ God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother. +28 So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more. +29 And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim. +30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel. +31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, __so__ __that__ three hundred and threescore men died. +32 ¶ And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which __was__ __in__ Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 NOW there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker. +2 ¶ And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; +3 And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; +4 And the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; +5 And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron. +6 ¶ And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul. +7 And Saul had a concubine, whose name __was__ Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and __Ish__-__bosheth__ said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine? +8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, __Am__ I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman? +9 So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sworn to David, even so I do to him; +10 To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba. +11 And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him. +12 ¶ And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose __is__ the land? saying __also__, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand __shall__ __be__ with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee. +13 ¶ And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face. +14 And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver __me__ my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines. +15 And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from __her__ husband, __even__ from Phaltiel the son of Laish. +16 And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned. +17 ¶ And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past __to__ __be__ king over you: +18 Now then do __it:__ for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies. +19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin. +20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that __were__ with him a feast. +21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace. +22 ¶ And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from __pursuing__ a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner __was__ not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace. +23 When Joab and all the host that __was__ with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace. +24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why __is__ it __that__ thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone? +25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest. +26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew __it__ not. +27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth __rib__, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. +28 ¶ And afterward when David heard __it__, he said, I and my kingdom __are__ guiltless before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner: +29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread. +30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. +31 ¶ And David said to Joab, and to all the people that __were__ with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David __himself__ followed the bier. +32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept. +33 And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? +34 Thy hands __were__ not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, __so__ fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him. +35 And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down. +36 And all the people took notice __of__ __it__, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people. +37 For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner. +38 And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? +39 And I __am__ this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah __be__ too hard for me: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled. +2 And Saul's son had two men __that__ __were__ captains of bands: the name of the one __was__ Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin: +3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.) +4 And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son __that__ __was__ lame of __his__ feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name __was__ Mephibosheth. +5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon. +6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, __as__ __though__ they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth __rib:__ and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. +7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night. +8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed. +9 ¶ And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, +10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who __thought__ that I would have given him a reward for his tidings: +11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? +12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged __them__ up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried __it__ in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 THEN came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we __are__ thy bone and thy flesh. +2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. +3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and they anointed David king over Israel. +4 ¶ David __was__ thirty years old when he began to reign, __and__ he reigned forty years. +5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah. +6 ¶ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither. +7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same __is__ the city of David. +8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, __that__ __are__ hated of David's soul, __he__ __shall__ __be__ __chief__ __and__ __captain__. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house. +9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward. +10 And David went on, and grew great, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts __was__ with him. +11 ¶ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house. +12 And David perceived that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake. +13 ¶ And David took __him__ more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David. +14 And these __be__ the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, +15 Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, +16 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet. +17 ¶ But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard __of__ __it__, and went down to the hold. +18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. +19 And David inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. +20 And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim. +21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them. +22 ¶ And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. +23 And when David inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he said, Thou shalt not go up; __but__ fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. +24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines. +25 And David did so, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AGAIN, David gathered together all __the__ chosen __men__ of Israel, thirty thousand. +2 And David arose, and went with all the people that __were__ with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts that dwelleth __between__ the cherubims. +3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that __was__ in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. +4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which __was__ at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark. +5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ on all manner of __instruments__ __made__ __of__ fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals. +6 ¶ And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth __his__ __hand__ to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook __it__. +7 And the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for __his__ error; and there he died by the ark of God. +8 And David was displeased, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez-uzzah to this day. +9 And David was afraid of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that day, and said, How shall the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ come to me? +10 So David would not remove the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. +11 And the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ blessed Obed-edom, and all his household. +12 ¶ And it was told king David, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that __pertaineth__ unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness. +13 And it was __so__, that when they that bare the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. +14 And David danced before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with all __his__ might; and David __was__ girded with a linen ephod. +15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. +16 And as the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and she despised him in her heart. +17 ¶ And they brought in the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +19 And he dealt among all the people, __even__ among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece __of__ __flesh__, and a flagon __of__ __wine__. So all the people departed every one to his house. +20 ¶ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself! +21 And David said unto Michal, __It__ __was__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, over Israel: therefore will I play before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour. +23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 AND it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had given him rest round about from all his enemies; +2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. +3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that __is__ in thine heart; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ with thee. +4 ¶ And it came to pass that night, that the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Nathan, saying, +5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in? +6 Whereas I have not dwelt in __any__ house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. +7 In all __the__ __places__ wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar? +8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: +9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great __men__ that __are__ in the earth. +10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime, +11 And as since the time that I commanded judges __to__ __be__ over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ telleth thee that he will make thee an house. +12 ¶ And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. +13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. +14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: +15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took __it__ from Saul, whom I put away before thee. +16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever. +17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David. +18 ¶ Then went king David in, and sat before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he said, Who __am__ I, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$? and what __is__ my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? +19 And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And __is__ this the manner of man, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$? +20 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, knowest thy servant. +21 For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know __them__. +22 Wherefore thou art great, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God: for __there__ __is__ none like thee, neither __is__ __there__ __any__ God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. +23 And what one nation in the earth __is__ like thy people, __even__ like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, __from__ the nations and their gods? +24 For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel __to__ __be__ a people unto thee for ever: and thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, art become their God. +25 And now, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish __it__ for ever, and do as thou hast said. +26 And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee. +27 For thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. +28 And now, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, thou __art__ that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: +29 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, hast spoken __it:__ and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines. +2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And __so__ the Moabites became David's servants, __and__ brought gifts. +3 ¶ David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates. +4 And David took from him a thousand __chariots__, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot __horses__, but reserved of them __for__ an hundred chariots. +5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. +6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, __and__ brought gifts. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ preserved David whithersoever he went. +7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. +8 And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass. +9 ¶ When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer, +10 Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And __Joram__ brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass: +11 Which also king David did dedicate unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued; +12 Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. +13 And David gat __him__ a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, __being__ eighteen thousand __men__. +14 ¶ And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ preserved David whithersoever he went. +15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people. +16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah __was__ over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud __was__ recorder; +17 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, __were__ the priests; and Seraiah __was__ the scribe; +18 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada __was__ __over__ both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake? +2 And __there__ __was__ of the house of Saul a servant whose name __was__ Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, __Art__ thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant __is__ __he__. +3 And the king said, __Is__ there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, __which__ __is__ lame on __his__ feet. +4 And the king said unto him, Where __is__ he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he __is__ in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar. +5 ¶ Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar. +6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant! +7 ¶ And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. +8 And he bowed himself, and said, What __is__ thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I __am?__ +9 ¶ Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house. +10 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in __the__ __fruits__, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. +11 Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, __said__ __the__ __king__, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons. +12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name __was__ Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba __were__ servants unto Mephibosheth. +13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead. +2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. +3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David __rather__ sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it? +4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, __even__ to their buttocks, and sent them away. +5 When they told __it__ unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and __then__ return. +6 ¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men. +7 And when David heard of __it__, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. +8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish-tob, and Maacah, __were__ by themselves in the field. +9 When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice __men__ of Israel, and put __them__ in array against the Syrians: +10 And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put __them__ in array against the children of Ammon. +11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee. +12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do that which seemeth him good. +13 And Joab drew nigh, and the people that __were__ with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him. +14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem. +15 ¶ And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselves together. +16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that __were__ beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer __went__ before them. +17 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him. +18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew __the__ __men__ __of__ seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there. +19 And when all the kings __that__ __were__ servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth __to__ __battle__, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. +2 ¶ And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman __was__ very beautiful to look upon. +3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And __one__ said, __Is__ not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? +4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. +5 And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I __am__ with child. +6 ¶ And David sent to Joab, __saying__, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David. +7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded __of__ __him__ how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. +8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess __of__ __meat__ from the king. +9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. +10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from __thy__ journey? why __then__ didst thou not go down unto thine house? +11 And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? __as__ thou livest, and __as__ thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing. +12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow. +13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house. +14 ¶ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent __it__ by the hand of Uriah. +15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. +16 And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men __were__. +17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell __some__ of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. +18 ¶ Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; +19 And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, +20 And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? +21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. +22 ¶ So the messenger went, and came and shewed David all that Joab had sent him for. +23 And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate. +24 And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and __some__ of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also. +25 Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him. +26 ¶ And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. +27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. +2 The rich __man__ had exceeding many flocks and herds: +3 But the poor __man__ had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. +4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. +5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, the man that hath done this __thing__ shall surely die: +6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. +7 ¶ And Nathan said to David, Thou __art__ the man. Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; +8 And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if __that__ __had__ __been__ too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things. +9 Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife __to__ __be__ thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. +10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. +11 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give __them__ unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. +12 For thou didst __it__ secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. +13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And Nathan said unto David, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. +14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to blaspheme, the child also __that__ __is__ born unto thee shall surely die. +15 ¶ And Nathan departed unto his house. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. +16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. +17 And the elders of his house arose, __and__ __went__ to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. +18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead? +19 But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead. +20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed __himself__, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat. +21 Then said his servants unto him, What thing __is__ this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, __while__ __it__ __was__ alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. +22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell __whether__ $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ will be gracious to me, that the child may live? +23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. +24 ¶ And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ loved him. +25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +26 ¶ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. +27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters. +28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name. +29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it. +30 And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof __was__ a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was __set__ on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance. +31 And he brought forth the people that __were__ therein, and put __them__ under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name __was__ Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. +2 And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she __was__ a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her. +3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name __was__ Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab __was__ a very subtil man. +4 And he said unto him, Why __art__ thou, __being__ the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. +5 And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see __it__, and eat __it__ at her hand. +6 ¶ So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand. +7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him meat. +8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded __it__, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. +9 And she took a pan, and poured __them__ out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him. +10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought __them__ into the chamber to Amnon her brother. +11 And when she had brought __them__ unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister. +12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly. +13 And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee. +14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her. +15 ¶ Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her __was__ greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. +16 And she said unto him, __There__ __is__ no cause: this evil in sending me away __is__ greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her. +17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this __woman__ out from me, and bolt the door after her. +18 And __she__ __had__ a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters __that__ __were__ virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her. +19 ¶ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that __was__ on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying. +20 And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he __is__ thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house. +21 ¶ But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. +22 And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. +23 ¶ And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which __is__ beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons. +24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant. +25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him. +26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee? +27 But Absalom pressed him, that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. +28 ¶ Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant. +29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled. +30 ¶ And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left. +31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent. +32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose __that__ they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar. +33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead. +34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him. +35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is. +36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore. +37 ¶ But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And __David__ mourned for his son every day. +38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. +39 And __the__ __soul__ __of__ king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 NOW Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart __was__ toward Absalom. +2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: +3 And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth. +4 ¶ And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king. +5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I __am__ indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead. +6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and __there__ __was__ none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him. +7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband __neither__ name nor remainder upon the earth. +8 And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee. +9 And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity __be__ on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne __be__ guiltless. +10 And the king said, Whosoever saith __ought__ unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more. +11 Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth. +12 Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak __one__ word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on. +13 And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished. +14 For we must needs die, and __are__ as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect __any__ person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. +15 Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, __it__ __is__ because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid. +16 For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man __that__ __would__ destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. +17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so __is__ my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will be with thee. +18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak. +19 And the king said, __Is__ __not__ the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, __As__ thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid: +20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord __is__ wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all __things__ that __are__ in the earth. +21 ¶ And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again. +22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant. +23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. +24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face. +25 ¶ But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. +26 And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled __it:__ because __the__ __hair__ was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight. +27 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name __was__ Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance. +28 ¶ So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face. +29 Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come. +30 Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire. +31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto __his__ house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire? +32 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? __it__ __had__ __been__ good for me __to__ __have__ __been__ there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be __any__ iniquity in me, let him kill me. +33 So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AND it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him. +2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was __so__, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city __art__ thou? And he said, Thy servant __is__ of one of the tribes of Israel. +3 And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters __are__ good and right; but __there__ __is__ no man __deputed__ of the king to hear thee. +4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice! +5 And it was __so__, that when any man came nigh __to__ __him__ to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him. +6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. +7 ¶ And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in Hebron. +8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron. +10 ¶ But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron. +11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, __that__ __were__ called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing. +12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counseller, from his city, __even__ from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom. +13 ¶ And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom. +14 And David said unto all his servants that __were__ with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not __else__ escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword. +15 And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants __are__ __ready__ __to__ __do__ whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. +16 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, __which__ __were__ concubines, to keep the house. +17 And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off. +18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king. +19 ¶ Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou __art__ a stranger, and also an exile. +20 Whereas thou camest __but__ yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth __be__ with thee. +21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, and __as__ my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be. +22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that __were__ with him. +23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness. +24 ¶ And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites __were__ with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city. +25 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he will bring me again, and shew me __both__ it, and his habitation: +26 But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, __here__ __am__ I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him. +27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, __Art__ __not__ thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. +28 See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me. +29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there. +30 ¶ And David went up by the ascent of __mount__ Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that __was__ with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. +31 ¶ And __one__ told David, saying, Ahithophel __is__ among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. +32 ¶ And it came to pass, that __when__ David was come to the top __of__ __the__ __mount__, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head: +33 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me: +34 But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; __as__ I __have__ __been__ thy father's servant hitherto, so __will__ I now also __be__ thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel. +35 And __hast__ __thou__ not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, __that__ what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell __it__ to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. +36 Behold, __they__ __have__ there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's __son__, and Jonathan Abiathar's __son;__ and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear. +37 So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 AND when David was a little past the top __of__ __the__ __hill__, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred __loaves__ of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. +2 And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses __be__ for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink. +3 And the king said, And where __is__ thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father. +4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine __are__ all that __pertained__ unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee __that__ I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king. +5 ¶ And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name __was__ Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. +6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men __were__ on his right hand and on his left. +7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial: +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou __art__ __taken__ in thy mischief, because thou __art__ a bloody man. +9 ¶ Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. +10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? +11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now __may__ __this__ Benjamite __do__ __it?__ let him alone, and let him curse; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath bidden him. +12 It may be that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will look on mine affliction, and that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will requite me good for his cursing this day. +13 And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust. +14 And the king, and all the people that __were__ with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there. +15 ¶ And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. +16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king. +17 And Absalom said to Hushai, __Is__ this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend? +18 And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide. +19 And again, whom should I serve? __should__ __I__ not __serve__ in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence. +20 ¶ Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do. +21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that __are__ with thee be strong. +22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. +23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, __was__ as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so __was__ all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 MOREOVER Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: +2 And I will come upon him while he __is__ weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that __are__ with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only: +3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest __is__ as if all returned: __so__ all the people shall be in peace. +4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. +5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith. +6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do __after__ his saying? if not; speak thou. +7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given __is__ not good at this time. +8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they __be__ mighty men, and they __be__ chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father __is__ a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. +9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some __other__ place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom. +10 And he also __that__ __is__ valiant, whose heart __is__ as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father __is__ a mighty man, and __they__ which __be__ with him __are__ valiant men. +11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that __is__ by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. +12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that __are__ with him there shall not be left so much as one. +13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there. +14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite __is__ better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ might bring evil upon Absalom. +15 ¶ Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled. +16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that __are__ with him. +17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David. +18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down. +19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known. +20 And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where __is__ Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find __them__, they returned to Jerusalem. +21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you. +22 Then David arose, and all the people that __were__ with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan. +23 ¶ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled __his__ ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. +24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. +25 ¶ And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa __was__ a man's son, whose name __was__ Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother. +26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead. +27 ¶ And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, +28 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched __corn__, and beans, and lentiles, and parched __pulse__, +29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that __were__ with him, to eat: for they said, The people __is__ hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AND David numbered the people that __were__ with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. +2 And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also. +3 But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now __thou__ __art__ worth ten thousand of us: therefore now __it__ __is__ better that thou succour us out of the city. +4 And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands. +5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, __Deal__ gently for my sake with the young man, __even__ with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom. +6 ¶ So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim; +7 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand __men__. +8 For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured. +9 ¶ And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that __was__ under him went away. +10 And a certain man saw __it__, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. +11 And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest __him__, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten __shekels__ of silver, and a girdle. +12 And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand __shekels__ of silver in mine hand, __yet__ would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none __touch__ the young man Absalom. +13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against __me__. +14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he __was__ yet alive in the midst of the oak. +15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him. +16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people. +17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent. +18 ¶ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which __is__ in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place. +19 ¶ Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath avenged him of his enemies. +20 And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead. +21 Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran. +22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready? +23 But howsoever, __said__ __he__, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. +24 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone. +25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he __be__ alone, __there__ __is__ tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near. +26 And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold __another__ man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings. +27 And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He __is__ a good man, and cometh with good tidings. +28 And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king. +29 And the king said, __Is__ the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and __me__ thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what __it__ __was__. +30 And the king said __unto__ __him__, Turn aside, __and__ stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still. +31 And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee. +32 And the king said unto Cushi, __Is__ the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do __thee__ hurt, be as __that__ young man __is__. +33 ¶ And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son! +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom. +2 And the victory that day was __turned__ into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son. +3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. +4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son! +5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines; +6 In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well. +7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now. +8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent. +9 ¶ And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom. +10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back? +11 ¶ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, __even__ to his house. +12 Ye __are__ my brethren, ye __are__ my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king? +13 And say ye to Amasa, __Art__ thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab. +14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as __the__ __heart__ __of__ one man; so that they sent __this__ __word__ unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants. +15 So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan. +16 ¶ And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which __was__ of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. +17 And __there__ __were__ a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king. +18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan; +19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. +20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king. +21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anointed? +22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I __am__ this day king over Israel? +23 Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him. +24 ¶ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came __again__ in peace. +25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth? +26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant __is__ lame. +27 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king __is__ as an angel of God: do therefore __what__ __is__ good in thine eyes. +28 For all __of__ my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king? +29 And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land. +30 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house. +31 ¶ And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan. +32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, __even__ fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he __was__ a very great man. +33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. +34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? +35 I __am__ this day fourscore years old: __and__ can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? +36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? +37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, __and__ __be__ __buried__ by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee. +38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, __that__ will I do for thee. +39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place. +40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel. +41 ¶ And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan? +42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king __is__ near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's __cost?__ or hath he given us any gift? +43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more __right__ in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name __was__ Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel. +2 So every man of Israel went up from after David, __and__ followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem. +3 ¶ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women __his__ concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood. +4 ¶ Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present. +5 So Amasa went to assemble __the__ __men__ __of__ Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him. +6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than __did__ Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us. +7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. +8 When they __were__ at the great stone which __is__ in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle __with__ a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out. +9 And Joab said to Amasa, __Art__ thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. +10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that __was__ in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth __rib__, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri. +11 And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that __is__ for David, __let__ __him__ __go__ after Joab. +12 And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still. +13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. +14 ¶ And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him. +15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that __were__ with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. +16 ¶ Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee. +17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, __Art__ thou Joab? And he answered, I __am__ __he__. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear. +18 Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask __counsel__ at Abel: and so they ended __the__ __matter__. +19 I __am__ __one__ __of__ __them__ __that__ __are__ peaceable __and__ faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. +21 The matter __is__ not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, __even__ against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall. +22 Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast __it__ out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king. +23 ¶ Now Joab __was__ over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada __was__ over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites: +24 And Adoram __was__ over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud __was__ recorder: +25 And Sheva __was__ scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar __were__ the priests: +26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 THEN there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered, __It__ __is__ for Saul, and for __his__ bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. +2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites __were__ not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) +3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, __that__ will I do for you. +5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us __that__ we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, +6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Gibeah of Saul, __whom__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did choose. And the king said, I will give __them__. +7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s oath that __was__ between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. +8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite: +9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and they fell __all__ seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first __days__, in the beginning of barley harvest. +10 ¶ And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. +11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. +12 ¶ And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: +13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. +14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land. +15 ¶ Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint. +16 And Ishbi-benob, which __was__ of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear __weighed__ three hundred __shekels__ of brass in weight, he being girded with a new __sword__, thought to have slain David. +17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel. +18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which __was__ of the sons of the giant. +19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew __the__ __brother__ __of__ Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear __was__ like a weaver's beam. +20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of __great__ stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. +21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him. +22 These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 AND David spake unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the words of this song in the day __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: +2 And he said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; +3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: __he__ __is__ my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. +4 I will call on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __who__ __is__ worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. +5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid; +6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; +7 In my distress I called upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry __did__ __enter__ into his ears. +8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. +9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. +10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness __was__ under his feet. +11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. +12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, __and__ thick clouds of the skies. +13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. +14 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice. +15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them. +16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. +17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; +18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, __and__ from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. +19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was my stay. +20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me. +21 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. +22 For I have kept the ways of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have not wickedly departed from my God. +23 For all his judgments __were__ before me: and __as__ __for__ his statutes, I did not depart from them. +24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. +25 Therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight. +26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, __and__ with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. +27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. +28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes __are__ upon the haughty, __that__ thou mayest bring __them__ down. +29 For thou __art__ my lamp, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will lighten my darkness. +30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. +31 __As__ __for__ God, his way __is__ perfect; the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ tried: he __is__ a buckler to all them that trust in him. +32 For who __is__ God, save the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? and who __is__ a rock, save our God? +33 God __is__ my strength __and__ power: and he maketh my way perfect. +34 He maketh my feet like hinds' __feet:__ and setteth me upon my high places. +35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. +36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great. +37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip. +38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them. +39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. +40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. +41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. +42 They looked, but __there__ __was__ none to save; __even__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but he answered them not. +43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, __and__ did spread them abroad. +44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me __to__ __be__ head of the heathen: a people __which__ I knew not shall serve me. +45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me. +46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places. +47 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth; and blessed __be__ my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. +48 It __is__ God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me, +49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. +50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name. +51 __He__ __is__ the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 NOW these __be__ the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man __who__ __was__ raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, +2 The Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake by me, and his word __was__ in my tongue. +3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men __must__ __be__ just, ruling in the fear of God. +4 And __he__ __shall__ __be__ as the light of the morning, __when__ the sun riseth, __even__ a morning without clouds; __as__ the tender grass __springing__ out of the earth by clear shining after rain. +5 Although my house __be__ not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all __things__, and sure: for __this__ __is__ all my salvation, and all __my__ desire, although he make __it__ not to grow. +6 ¶ But __the__ __sons__ of Belial __shall__ __be__ all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: +7 But the man __that__ shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the __same__ place. +8 ¶ These __be__ the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same __was__ Adino the Eznite: __he__ __lift__ __up__ __his__ __spear__ against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time. +9 And after him __was__ Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, __one__ of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines __that__ were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away: +10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. +11 And after him __was__ Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines. +12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ wrought a great victory. +13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim. +14 And David __was__ then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines __was__ then __in__ Beth-lehem. +15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, which __is__ by the gate! +16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that __was__ by the gate, and took __it__, and brought __it__ to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 And he said, Be it far from me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I should do this: __is__ __not__ __this__ the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. +18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, __and__ slew __them__, and had the name among three. +19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the __first__ three. +20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: +21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. +22 These __things__ did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men. +23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the __first__ three. And David set him over his guard. +24 Asahel the brother of Joab __was__ one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem, +25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, +26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, +27 Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, +28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, +29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, +30 Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, +31 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, +32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, +33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, +34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, +35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, +36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, +37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah, +38 Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, +39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AND again the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. +2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which __was__ with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. +3 And Joab said unto the king, Now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see __it:__ but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing? +4 Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. +5 ¶ And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that __lieth__ in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer: +6 Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon, +7 And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, __even__ to Beer-sheba. +8 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. +9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah __were__ five hundred thousand men. +10 ¶ And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. +11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, +12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I offer thee three __things;__ choose thee one of them, that I may __do__ __it__ unto thee. +13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. +14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for his mercies __are__ great: and let me not fall into the hand of man. +15 ¶ So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. +16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. +17 And David spake unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house. +18 ¶ And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite. +19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded. +20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground. +21 And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that the plague may be stayed from the people. +22 And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what __seemeth__ good unto him: behold, __here__ __be__ oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and __other__ instruments of the oxen for wood. +23 All these __things__ did Araunah, __as__ a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God accept thee. +24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy __it__ of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. +25 And David built there an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. +:::SET BOOK 1 Kings +:::SET TITLE The First Book of the Kings, Commonly Called, the Third Book of the Kings +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW king David was old __and__ stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. +2 Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. +3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. +4 And the damsel __was__ very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not. +5 ¶ Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. +6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also __was__ __a__ very goodly __man;__ and __his__ __mother__ bare him after Absalom. +7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped __him__. +8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which __belonged__ to David, were not with Adonijah. +9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which __is__ by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants: +10 But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not. +11 ¶ Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth __it__ not? +12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon. +13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign? +14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words. +15 ¶ And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king. +16 And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou? +17 And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God unto thine handmaid, __saying__, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne. +18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou knowest __it__ not: +19 And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called. +20 And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel __are__ upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. +21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. +22 ¶ And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in. +23 And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground. +24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? +25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah. +26 But me, __even__ me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called. +27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed __it__ unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him? +28 ¶ Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. +29 And the king sware, and said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress, +30 Even as I sware unto thee by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day. +31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with __her__ face to the earth, and did reverence to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. +32 ¶ And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king. +33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon: +34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon. +35 Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah. +36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of my lord the king say so __too__. +37 As the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David. +38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon. +39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon. +40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them. +41 ¶ And Adonijah and all the guests that __were__ with him heard __it__ as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore __is__ __this__ noise of the city being in an uproar? +42 And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou __art__ a valiant man, and bringest good tidings. +43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king. +44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule: +45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This __is__ the noise that ye have heard. +46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom. +47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed. +48 And also thus said the king, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, which hath given __one__ to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing __it__. +49 And all the guests that __were__ with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way. +50 ¶ And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. +51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword. +52 And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die. +53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him, Go to thine house. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 NOW the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, +2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man; +3 And keep the charge of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself: +4 That the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel. +5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, __and__ what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that __was__ about his loins, and in his shoes that __were__ on his feet. +6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace. +7 But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother. +8 And, behold, __thou__ __hast__ with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword. +9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou __art__ a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood. +10 So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. +11 And the days that David reigned over Israel __were__ forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. +12 ¶ Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly. +13 ¶ And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably. +14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on. +15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and __that__ all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on. +17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife. +18 And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king. +19 ¶ Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand. +20 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; __I__ __pray__ __thee__, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay. +21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife. +22 And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he __is__ mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah. +23 Then king Solomon sware by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life. +24 Now therefore, __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day. +25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him that he died. +26 ¶ And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou __art__ worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted. +27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; that he might fulfil the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. +28 ¶ Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. +29 And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and, behold, __he__ __is__ by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him. +30 And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me. +31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father. +32 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing __thereof__, __to__ __wit__, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. +33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. +35 ¶ And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar. +36 ¶ And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. +37 For it shall be, __that__ on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head. +38 And Shimei said unto the king, The saying __is__ good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days. +39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants __be__ in Gath. +40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. +41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again. +42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word __that__ I have heard __is__ good. +43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the commandment that I have charged thee with? +44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head; +45 And king Solomon __shall__ __be__ blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for ever. +46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. +2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, until those days. +3 And Solomon loved the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. +4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that __was__ the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. +5 ¶ In Gibeon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. +6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as __it__ __is__ this day. +7 And now, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I __am__ __but__ a little child: I know not __how__ to go out or come in. +8 And thy servant __is__ in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. +9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? +10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. +11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; +12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. +13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. +14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. +15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, __it__ __was__ a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants. +16 ¶ Then came there two women, __that__ __were__ harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. +17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. +18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we __were__ together; __there__ __was__ no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. +19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. +20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. +21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear. +22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living __is__ my son, and the dead __is__ thy son. And this said, No; but the dead __is__ thy son, and the living __is__ my son. Thus they spake before the king. +23 Then said the king, The one saith, This __is__ my son that liveth, and thy son __is__ the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son __is__ the dead, and my son __is__ the living. +24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. +25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. +26 Then spake the woman whose the living child __was__ unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, __but__ divide __it__. +27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she __is__ the mother thereof. +28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God __was__ in him, to do judgment. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 SO king Solomon was king over all Israel. +2 And these __were__ the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest, +3 Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder. +4 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada __was__ over the host: and Zadok and Abiathar __were__ the priests: +5 And Azariah the son of Nathan __was__ over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan __was__ principal officer, __and__ the king's friend: +6 And Ahishar __was__ over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda __was__ over the tribute. +7 ¶ And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. +8 And these __are__ their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: +9 The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan: +10 The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him __pertained__ Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher: +11 The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife: +12 Baana the son of Ahilud; __to__ __him__ __pertained__ Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which __is__ by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, __even__ unto __the__ __place__ __that__ __is__ beyond Jokneam: +13 The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him __pertained__ the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which __are__ in Gilead; to him __also__ __pertained__ the region of Argob, which __is__ in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars: +14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo __had__ Mahanaim: +15 Ahimaaz __was__ in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife: +16 Baanah the son of Hushai __was__ in Asher and in Aloth: +17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: +18 Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: +19 Geber the son of Uri __was__ in the country of Gilead, __in__ the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and __he__ __was__ the only officer which __was__ in the land. +20 ¶ Judah and Israel __were__ many, as the sand which __is__ by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. +21 And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. +22 ¶ And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, +23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. +24 For he had dominion over all __the__ __region__ on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him. +25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. +26 ¶ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. +27 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing. +28 Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where __the__ __officers__ were, every man according to his charge. +29 ¶ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that __is__ on the sea shore. +30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. +31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about. +32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. +33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that __is__ in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. +34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David. +2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, +3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ put them under the soles of his feet. +4 But now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God hath given me rest on every side, __so__ __that__ __there__ __is__ neither adversary nor evil occurrent. +5 And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name. +6 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that __there__ __is__ not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. +7 ¶ And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people. +8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which thou sentest to me for: __and__ I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. +9 My servants shall bring __them__ down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive __them:__ and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household. +10 So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees __according__ __to__ all his desire. +11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat __for__ food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. +12 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together. +13 ¶ And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. +14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, __and__ two months at home: and Adoniram __was__ over the levy. +15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; +16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which __were__ over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work. +17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, __and__ hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. +18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew __them__, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which __is__ the second month, that he began to build the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 And the house which king Solomon built for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the length thereof __was__ threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty __cubits__, and the height thereof thirty cubits. +3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits __was__ the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; __and__ ten cubits __was__ the breadth thereof before the house. +4 And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. +5 ¶ And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, __against__ the walls of the house round about, __both__ of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about: +6 The nethermost chamber __was__ five cubits broad, and the middle __was__ six cubits broad, and the third __was__ seven cubits broad: for without __in__ __the__ __wall__ of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that __the__ __beams__ should not be fastened in the walls of the house. +7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe __nor__ any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. +8 The door for the middle chamber __was__ in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle __chamber__, and out of the middle into the third. +9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. +10 And __then__ he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. +11 ¶ And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Solomon, saying, +12 __Concerning__ this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father: +13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel. +14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it. +15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: __and__ he covered __them__ on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. +16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built __them__ for it within, __even__ for the oracle, __even__ for the most holy __place__. +17 And the house, that __is__, the temple before it, was forty cubits __long__. +18 And the cedar of the house within __was__ carved with knops and open flowers: all __was__ cedar; there was no stone seen. +19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 And the oracle in the forepart __was__ twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and __so__ covered the altar __which__ __was__ __of__ cedar. +21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. +22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that __was__ by the oracle he overlaid with gold. +23 ¶ And within the oracle he made two cherubims __of__ olive tree, __each__ ten cubits high. +24 And five cubits __was__ the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other __were__ ten cubits. +25 And the other cherub __was__ ten cubits: both the cherubims __were__ of one measure and one size. +26 The height of the one cherub __was__ ten cubits, and so __was__ __it__ of the other cherub. +27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the __one__ wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house. +28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold. +29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without. +30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without. +31 ¶ And for the entering of the oracle he made doors __of__ olive tree: the lintel __and__ side posts __were__ a fifth part __of__ __the__ __wall__. +32 The two doors also __were__ __of__ olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid __them__ with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees. +33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts __of__ olive tree, a fourth part __of__ __the__ __wall__. +34 And the two doors __were__ __of__ fir tree: the two leaves of the one door __were__ folding, and the two leaves of the other door __were__ folding. +35 And he carved __thereon__ cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered __them__ with gold fitted upon the carved work. +36 ¶ And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams. +37 ¶ In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ laid, in the month Zif: +38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which __is__ the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 BUT Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. +2 ¶ He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof __was__ an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. +3 And __it__ __was__ covered with cedar above upon the beams, that __lay__ on forty five pillars, fifteen __in__ a row. +4 And __there__ __were__ windows __in__ three rows, and light __was__ against light __in__ three ranks. +5 And all the doors and posts __were__ square, with the windows: and light __was__ against light __in__ three ranks. +6 ¶ And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof __was__ fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch __was__ before them: and the __other__ pillars and the thick beam __were__ before them. +7 ¶ Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, __even__ the porch of judgment: and __it__ __was__ covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other. +8 ¶ And his house where he dwelt __had__ another court within the porch, __which__ was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken __to__ __wife__, like unto this porch. +9 All these __were__ __of__ costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and __so__ on the outside toward the great court. +10 And the foundation __was__ __of__ costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. +11 And above __were__ costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. +12 And the great court round about __was__ with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for the porch of the house. +13 ¶ And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. +14 He __was__ a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father __was__ a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work. +15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. +16 And he made two chapiters __of__ molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter __was__ five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter __was__ five cubits: +17 __And__ nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which __were__ upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. +18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that __were__ upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter. +19 And the chapiters that __were__ upon the top of the pillars __were__ of lily work in the porch, four cubits. +20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars __had__ __pomegranates__ also above, over against the belly which __was__ by the network: and the pomegranates __were__ two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter. +21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz. +22 And upon the top of the pillars __was__ lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished. +23 ¶ And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: __it__ __was__ round all about, and his height __was__ five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. +24 And under the brim of it round about __there__ __were__ knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops __were__ cast in two rows, when it was cast. +25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea __was__ __set__ above upon them, and all their hinder parts __were__ inward. +26 And it __was__ an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths. +27 ¶ And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits __was__ the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. +28 And the work of the bases __was__ on this __manner:__ they had borders, and the borders __were__ between the ledges: +29 And on the borders that __were__ between the ledges __were__ lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges __there__ __was__ a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen __were__ certain additions made of thin work. +30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver __were__ undersetters molten, at the side of every addition. +31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above __was__ a cubit: but the mouth thereof __was__ round __after__ the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it __were__ gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round. +32 And under the borders __were__ four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels __were__ __joined__ to the base: and the height of a wheel __was__ a cubit and half a cubit. +33 And the work of the wheels __was__ like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, __were__ all molten. +34 And __there__ __were__ four undersetters to the four corners of one base: __and__ the undersetters __were__ of the very base itself. +35 And in the top of the base __was__ __there__ a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof __were__ of the same. +36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about. +37 After this __manner__ he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, __and__ one size. +38 ¶ Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: __and__ every laver was four cubits: __and__ upon every one of the ten bases one laver. +39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south. +40 ¶ And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +41 The two pillars, and the __two__ bowls of the chapiters that __were__ on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which __were__ upon the top of the pillars; +42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, __even__ two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that __were__ upon the pillars; +43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; +44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; +45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __were__ __of__ bright brass. +46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan. +47 And Solomon left all the vessels __unweighed__, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out. +48 And Solomon made all the vessels that __pertained__ unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread __was__, +49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right __side__, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs __of__ gold, +50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers __of__ pure gold; and the hinges __of__ gold, __both__ for the doors of the inner house, the most holy __place__, __and__ for the doors of the house, __to__ __wit__, of the temple. +51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; __even__ the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 THEN Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ out of the city of David, which __is__ Zion. +2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which __is__ the seventh month. +3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. +4 And they brought up the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that __were__ in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. +5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, __were__ with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. +6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy __place__, __even__ under the wings of the cherubims. +7 For the cherubims spread forth __their__ two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. +8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy __place__ before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day. +9 __There__ __was__ nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made __a__ __covenant__ with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. +10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy __place__, that the cloud filled the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had filled the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 ¶ Then spake Solomon, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. +13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever. +14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) +15 And he said, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled __it__, saying, +16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel. +17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +18 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart. +19 Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ promised, and have built an house for the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +21 And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein __is__ the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. +22 ¶ And Solomon stood before the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: +23 And he said, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, __there__ __is__ no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart: +24 Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled __it__ with thine hand, as __it__ __is__ this day. +25 Therefore now, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me. +26 And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. +27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? +28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day: +29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, __even__ toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place. +30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive. +31 ¶ If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house: +32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. +33 ¶ When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house: +34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers. +35 ¶ When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: +36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance. +37 ¶ If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, __or__ if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness __there__ __be;__ +38 What prayer and supplication soever be __made__ by any man, __or__ by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: +39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, __even__ thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;) +40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. +41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that __is__ not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; +42 (For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house; +43 Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as __do__ thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name. +44 ¶ If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ toward the city which thou hast chosen, and __toward__ the house that I have built for thy name: +45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. +46 If they sin against thee, (for __there__ __is__ no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; +47 __Yet__ if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; +48 And __so__ return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: +49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, +50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them: +51 For they __be__ thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: +52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee. +53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, __to__ __be__ thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +54 And it was __so__, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he arose from before the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. +55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, +56 Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. +57 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us: +58 That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. +59 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, be nigh unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require: +60 That all the people of the earth may know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ God, __and__ __that__ __there__ __is__ none else. +61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. +62 ¶ And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +63 And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that __was__ before the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that __was__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings. +65 And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, seven days and seven days, __even__ fourteen days. +66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, +2 That the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon. +3 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. +4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, __and__ wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: +5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. +6 __But__ if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments __and__ my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: +7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: +8 And at this house, __which__ is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ done thus unto this land, and to this house? +9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought upon them all this evil. +10 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the king's house, +11 (__Now__ Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. +12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not. +13 And he said, What cities __are__ these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day. +14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. +15 ¶ And this __is__ the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. +16 __For__ Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it __for__ a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. +17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, +18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, +19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. +20 __And__ all the people __that__ __were__ left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which __were__ not of the children of Israel, +21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day. +22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they __were__ men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. +23 These __were__ the chief of the officers that __were__ over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work. +24 ¶ But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which __Solomon__ had built for her: then did he build Millo. +25 ¶ And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he burnt incense upon the altar that __was__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. So he finished the house. +26 ¶ And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which __is__ beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. +27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. +28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought __it__ to king Solomon. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, she came to prove him with hard questions. +2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. +3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not __any__ thing hid from the king, which he told her not. +4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built, +5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; there was no more spirit in her. +6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. +7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen __it:__ and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard. +8 Happy __are__ thy men, happy __are__ these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, __and__ that hear thy wisdom. +9 Blessed be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice. +10 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. +11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. +12 And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. +13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside __that__ which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants. +14 ¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, +15 Beside __that__ __he__ __had__ of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country. +16 ¶ And king Solomon made two hundred targets __of__ beaten gold: six hundred __shekels__ of gold went to one target. +17 And __he__ __made__ three hundred shields __of__ beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. +18 ¶ Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold. +19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne __was__ round behind: and __there__ __were__ stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays. +20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom. +21 ¶ And all king Solomon's drinking vessels __were__ __of__ gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon __were__ __of__ pure gold; none __were__ __of__ silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. +22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. +23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. +24 ¶ And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. +25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. +26 ¶ And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem. +27 And the king made silver __to__ __be__ in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he __to__ __be__ as the sycomore trees that __are__ in the vale, for abundance. +28 ¶ And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. +29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred __shekels__ of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring __them__ out by their means. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 BUT king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, __and__ Hittites; +2 Of the nations __concerning__ which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: __for__ surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. +3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. +4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, __that__ his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, as __was__ the heart of David his father. +5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. +6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and went not fully after the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as __did__ David his father. +7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that __is__ before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. +8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. +9 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, +10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded. +11 Wherefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant. +12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: __but__ I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. +13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; __but__ will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen. +14 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he __was__ of the king's seed in Edom. +15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom; +16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:) +17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad __being__ yet a little child. +18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land. +19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. +20 And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh. +21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country. +22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise. +23 ¶ And God stirred him up __another__ adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: +24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them __of__ __Zobah:__ and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus. +25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad __did:__ and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria. +26 ¶ And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's servant, whose mother's name __was__ Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up __his__ hand against the king. +27 And this __was__ the cause that he lifted up __his__ hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, __and__ repaired the breaches of the city of David his father. +28 And the man Jeroboam __was__ a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph. +29 And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two __were__ alone in the field: +30 And Ahijah caught the new garment that __was__ on him, and rent it __in__ twelve pieces: +31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: +32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:) +33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do __that__ __which__ __is__ right in mine eyes, and __to__ __keep__ my statutes and my judgments, as __did__ David his father. +34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes: +35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, __even__ ten tribes. +36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there. +37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. +38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do __that__ __is__ right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee. +39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever. +40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon. +41 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, __are__ they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? +42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel __was__ forty years. +43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. +2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard __of__ __it__, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) +3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, +4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee. +5 And he said unto them, Depart yet __for__ three days, then come again to me. And the people departed. +6 ¶ And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people? +7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever. +8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, __and__ which stood before him: +9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter? +10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou __it__ lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little __finger__ shall be thicker than my father's loins. +11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. +12 ¶ So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day. +13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him; +14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father __also__ chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. +15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he might perform his saying, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat. +16 ¶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither __have__ __we__ inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents. +17 But __as__ __for__ the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. +18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who __was__ over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. +19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. +20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only. +21 ¶ And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. +22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, +23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, +24 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and returned to depart, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +25 ¶ Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel. +26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: +27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, __even__ unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. +28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves __of__ gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. +29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. +30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went __to__ __worship__ before the one, __even__ unto Dan. +31 And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. +32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that __is__ in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made. +33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, __even__ in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. +2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee. +3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This __is__ the sign which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that __are__ upon it shall be poured out. +4 And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Beth-el, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him. +5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as __it__ __was__ before. +7 And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward. +8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: +9 For so was it charged me by the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. +10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el. +11 ¶ Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father. +12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. +13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon, +14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, __Art__ thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I __am__. +15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. +16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: +17 For it was said to me by the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. +18 He said unto him, I __am__ a prophet also as thou __art;__ and an angel spake unto me by the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. __But__ he lied unto him. +19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water. +20 ¶ And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto the prophet that brought him back: +21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and hast not kept the commandment which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God commanded thee, +22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers. +23 ¶ And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, __to__ __wit__, for the prophet whom he had brought back. +24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. +25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told __it__ in the city where the old prophet dwelt. +26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard __thereof__, he said, It __is__ the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake unto him. +27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled __him__. +28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass. +29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him. +30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, __saying__, Alas, my brother! +31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God __is__ buried; lay my bones beside his bones: +32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which __are__ in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass. +33 ¶ After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became __one__ of the priests of the high places. +34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut __it__ off, and to destroy __it__ from off the face of the earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AT that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. +2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there __is__ Ahijah the prophet, which told me that __I__ __should__ __be__ king over this people. +3 And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child. +4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. +5 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he __is__ sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself __to__ __be__ another __woman__. +6 And it was __so__, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself __to__ __be__ another? for I __am__ sent to thee __with__ heavy __tidings__. +7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, +8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and __yet__ thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do __that__ only __which__ __was__ right in mine eyes; +9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: +10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, __and__ him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. +11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken __it__. +12 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: __and__ when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. +13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found __some__ good thing toward the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. +14 Moreover the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. +15 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to anger. +16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin. +17 ¶ And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: __and__ when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died; +18 And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. +19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they __are__ written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. +20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned __were__ two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead. +21 ¶ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam __was__ forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name __was__ Naamah an Ammonitess. +22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. +23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. +24 And there were also sodomites in the land: __and__ they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cast out before the children of Israel. +25 ¶ And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, __that__ Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: +26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. +27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed __them__ unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house. +28 And it was __so__, when the king went into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber. +29 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all __their__ days. +31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother's name __was__ Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. +2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. +3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, as the heart of David his father. +4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem: +5 Because David did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and turned not aside from any __thing__ that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. +6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. +7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. +8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. +9 ¶ And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. +10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. +11 And Asa did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as __did__ David his father. +12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. +13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from __being__ queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt __it__ by the brook Kidron. +14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all his days. +15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, silver, and gold, and vessels. +16 ¶ And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. +17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. +18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold __that__ __were__ left in the treasures of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, +19 __There__ __is__ a league between me and thee, __and__ between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. +20 So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. +21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard __thereof__, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah. +22 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none __was__ exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. +23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. +24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead. +25 ¶ And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years. +26 And he did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. +27 ¶ And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which __belonged__ to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon. +28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead. +29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, __that__ he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: +30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel to anger. +31 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. +33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years. +34 And he did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 THEN the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, +2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins; +3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. +4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat. +5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +6 So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead. +7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him. +8 ¶ In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years. +9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half __his__ chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of __his__ house in Tirzah. +10 And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. +11 ¶ And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, __that__ he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends. +12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, +13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel to anger with their vanities. +14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +15 ¶ In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people __were__ encamped against Gibbethon, which __belonged__ to the Philistines. +16 And the people __that__ __were__ encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp. +17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. +18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died, +19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin. +20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +21 ¶ Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri. +22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. +23 ¶ In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah. +24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria. +25 ¶ But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and did worse than all that __were__ before him. +26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel to anger with their vanities. +27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead. +29 ¶ And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years. +30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ above all that __were__ before him. +31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. +32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. +33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him. +34 ¶ In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest __son__ Segub, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND Elijah the Tishbite, __who__ __was__ of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. +2 And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto him, saying, +3 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that __is__ before Jordan. +4 And it shall be, __that__ thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. +5 So he went and did according unto the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that __is__ before Jordan. +6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. +7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. +8 ¶ And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto him, saying, +9 Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which __belongeth__ to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. +10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman __was__ there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. +11 And as she was going to fetch __it__, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. +12 And she said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I __am__ gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. +13 And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go __and__ do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring __it__ unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. +14 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sendeth rain upon the earth. +15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat __many__ days. +16 __And__ the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake by Elijah. +17 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, __that__ the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. +18 And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? +19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. +20 And he cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? +21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. +22 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. +23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. +24 ¶ And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou __art__ a man of God, __and__ that the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in thy mouth __is__ truth. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AND it came to pass __after__ many days, that the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. +2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And __there__ __was__ a sore famine in Samaria. +3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which __was__ the governor of __his__ house. (Now Obadiah feared the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ greatly: +4 For it was __so__, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) +5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. +6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. +7 ¶ And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, __Art__ thou that my lord Elijah? +8 And he answered him, I __am:__ go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah __is__ __here__. +9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? +10 __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, __He__ __is__ not __there;__ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not. +11 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah __is__ __here__. +12 And it shall come to pass, __as__ __soon__ __as__ I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall carry thee whither I know not; and __so__ when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from my youth. +13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, how I hid an hundred men of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? +14 And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah __is__ __here:__ and he shall slay me. +15 And Elijah said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day. +16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah. +17 ¶ And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, __Art__ thou he that troubleth Israel? +18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and thou hast followed Baalim. +19 Now therefore send, __and__ gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. +20 So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. +21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __be__ God, follow him: but if Baal, __then__ follow him. And the people answered him not a word. +22 Then said Elijah unto the people, I, __even__ I only, remain a prophet of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; but Baal's prophets __are__ four hundred and fifty men. +23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay __it__ on wood, and put no fire __under:__ and I will dress the other bullock, and lay __it__ on wood, and put no fire __under:__ +24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken. +25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress __it__ first; for ye __are__ many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire __under__. +26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed __it__, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But __there__ __was__ no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. +27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he __is__ a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, __or__ peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. +28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. +29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the __time__ of the offering of the __evening__ sacrifice, that __there__ __was__ neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. +30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __that__ __was__ broken down. +31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came, saying, Israel shall be thy name: +32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. +33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid __him__ on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour __it__ on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. +34 And he said, Do __it__ the second time. And they did __it__ the second time. And he said, Do __it__ the third time. And they did __it__ the third time. +35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. +36 And it came to pass at __the__ __time__ __of__ the offering of the __evening__ sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou __art__ God in Israel, and __that__ I __am__ thy servant, and __that__ I have done all these things at thy word. +37 Hear me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hear me, that this people may know that thou __art__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, and __that__ thou hast turned their heart back again. +38 Then the fire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that __was__ in the trench. +39 And when all the people saw __it__, they fell on their faces: and they said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he __is__ the God; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he __is__ the God. +40 And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. +41 ¶ And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for __there__ __is__ a sound of abundance of rain. +42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, +43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, __There__ __is__ nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. +44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare __thy__ __chariot__, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. +45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. +46 And the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. +2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do __to__ __me__, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time. +3 And when he saw __that__, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which __belongeth__ to Judah, and left his servant there. +4 ¶ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, take away my life; for I __am__ not better than my fathers. +5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise __and__ eat. +6 And he looked, and, behold, __there__ __was__ a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. +7 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise __and__ eat; because the journey __is__ too great for thee. +8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. +9 ¶ And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __came__ to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? +10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, __even__ I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. +11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; __but__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; __but__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ not in the earthquake: +12 And after the earthquake a fire; __but__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. +13 And it was __so__, when Elijah heard __it__, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, __there__ __came__ a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? +14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, __even__ I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael __to__ __be__ king over Syria: +16 And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint __to__ __be__ king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint __to__ __be__ prophet in thy room. +17 And it shall come to pass, __that__ him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. +18 Yet I have left __me__ seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. +19 ¶ So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who __was__ plowing __with__ twelve yoke __of__ __oxen__ before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. +20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and __then__ I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? +21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and __there__ __were__ thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it. +2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad, +3 Thy silver and thy gold __is__ mine; thy wives also and thy children, __even__ the goodliest, __are__ mine. +4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I __am__ thine, and all that I have. +5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; +6 Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, __that__ whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put __it__ in their hand, and take __it__ away. +7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this __man__ seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not. +8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not __unto__ __him__, nor consent. +9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again. +10 And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. +11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell __him__, Let not him that girdeth on __his__ __harness__ boast himself as he that putteth it off. +12 And it came to pass, when __Ben__-__hadad__ heard this message, as he __was__ drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set __yourselves__ __in__ __array__. And they set __themselves__ __in__ __array__ against the city. +13 ¶ And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __Even__ by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou. +15 Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, __even__ all the children of Israel, __being__ seven thousand. +16 And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad __was__ drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. +17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria. +18 And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive. +19 So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them. +20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen. +21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. +22 ¶ And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. +23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods __are__ gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. +24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms: +25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, __and__ surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so. +26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. +27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country. +28 ¶ And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Because the Syrians have said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ God of the hills, but he __is__ not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +29 And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And __so__ it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. +30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and __there__ a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men __that__ __were__ left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber. +31 ¶ And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel __are__ merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life. +32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and __put__ ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, __Is__ he yet alive? he __is__ my brother. +33 Now the men did diligently observe whether __any__ __thing__ __would__ __come__ from him, and did hastily catch __it:__ and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot. +34 And __Ben__-__hadad__ said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then __said__ __Ahab__, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away. +35 ¶ And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him. +36 Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him. +37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded __him__. +38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face. +39 And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver. +40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So __shall__ thy judgment __be;__ thyself hast decided __it__. +41 And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he __was__ of the prophets. +42 And he said unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Because thou hast let go out of __thy__ hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people. +43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND it came to pass after these things, __that__ Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which __was__ in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. +2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it __is__ near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; __or__, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. +3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. +4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. +5 ¶ But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? +6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee __another__ vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard. +7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, __and__ eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. +8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed __them__ with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that __were__ in his city, dwelling with Naboth. +9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: +10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And __then__ carry him out, and stone him, that he may die. +11 And the men of his city, __even__ the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, __and__ as it __was__ written in the letters which she had sent unto them. +12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. +13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, __even__ against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. +14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. +15 ¶ And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead. +16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. +17 ¶ And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, +18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which __is__ in Samaria: behold, __he__ __is__ in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it. +19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. +20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found __thee:__ because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, +22 And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked __me__ to anger, and made Israel to sin. +23 And of Jezebel also spake the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. +24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. +25 ¶ But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. +26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all __things__ as did the Amorites, whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cast out before the children of Israel. +27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. +28 And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, +29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: __but__ in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 AND they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. +2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. +3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead __is__ ours, and we __be__ still, __and__ take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria? +4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I __am__ as thou __art__, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses. +5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to day. +6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver __it__ into the hand of the king. +7 And Jehoshaphat said, __Is__ __there__ not here a prophet of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ besides, that we might inquire of him? +8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, __There__ __is__ yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. +9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten __hither__ Micaiah the son of Imlah. +10 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. +11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them. +12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall deliver __it__ into the king's hand. +13 And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets __declare__ good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak __that__ __which__ __is__ good. +14 And Micaiah said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saith unto me, that will I speak. +15 ¶ So he came to the king. And the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall deliver __it__ into the hand of the king. +16 And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but __that__ __which__ __is__ true in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace. +18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil? +19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I saw the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. +21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, I will persuade him. +22 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade __him__, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. +23 Now therefore, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken evil concerning thee. +24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from me to speak unto thee? +25 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself. +26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; +27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this __fellow__ in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace. +28 And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you. +29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. +30 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. +31 But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel. +32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it __is__ the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out. +33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it __was__ not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. +34 And a __certain__ man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded. +35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot. +36 And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country. +37 ¶ So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria. +38 And __one__ washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which he spake. +39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. +41 ¶ And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. +42 Jehoshaphat __was__ thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. +43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; __for__ the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places. +44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. +45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +46 And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land. +47 __There__ __was__ then no king in Edom: a deputy __was__ king. +48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber. +49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not. +50 ¶ And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. +51 ¶ Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel. +52 And he did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: +53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. +:::SET BOOK 2 Kings +:::SET TITLE The Second Book of the Kings, Commonly Called, the Fourth Book of the Kings +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THEN Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. +2 And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that __was__ in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. +3 But the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, __Is__ __it__ not because __there__ __is__ not a God in Israel, __that__ ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? +4 Now therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed. +5 ¶ And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back? +6 And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __Is__ __it__ not because __there__ __is__ not a God in Israel, __that__ thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. +7 And he said unto them, What manner of man __was__ __he__ which came up to meet you, and told you these words? +8 And they answered him, __He__ __was__ an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It __is__ Elijah the Tishbite. +9 Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down. +10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I __be__ a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. +11 Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly. +12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I __be__ a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. +13 ¶ And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. +14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight. +15 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king. +16 And he said unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, __is__ __it__ not because __there__ __is__ no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. +17 ¶ So he died according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son. +18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND it came to pass, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. +2 And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sent me to Beth-el. And Elisha said __unto__ __him__, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, and __as__ thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el. +3 And the sons of the prophets that __were__ at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know __it;__ hold ye your peace. +4 And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, and __as__ thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho. +5 And the sons of the prophets that __were__ at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know __it;__ hold ye your peace. +6 And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, and __as__ thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on. +7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan. +8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped __it__ together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground. +9 ¶ And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. +10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: __nevertheless__, if thou see me __when__ __I__ __am__ taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be __so__. +11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, __there__ __appeared__ a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. +12 ¶ And Elisha saw __it__, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces. +13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; +14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over. +15 And when the sons of the prophets which __were__ to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. +16 ¶ And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. +17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not. +18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not? +19 ¶ And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city __is__ pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water __is__ naught, and the ground barren. +20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought __it__ to him. +21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren __land__. +22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake. +23 ¶ And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. +24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. +25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 NOW Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. +2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made. +3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. +4 ¶ And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool. +5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. +6 ¶ And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel. +7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I __am__ as thou __art__, my people as thy people, __and__ my horses as thy horses. +8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom. +9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them. +10 And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab! +11 But Jehoshaphat said, __Is__ __there__ not here a prophet of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that we may inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here __is__ Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah. +12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him. +13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab. +14 And Elisha said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee. +15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came upon him. +16 And he said, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Make this valley full of ditches. +17 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts. +18 And this is __but__ a light thing in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand. +19 And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones. +20 And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water. +21 ¶ And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border. +22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side __as__ red as blood: +23 And they said, This __is__ blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. +24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in __their__ country. +25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about __it__, and smote it. +26 ¶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through __even__ unto the king of Edom: but they could not. +27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him __for__ a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to __their__ __own__ land. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 NOW there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. +2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. +3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, __even__ empty vessels; borrow not a few. +4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full. +5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought __the__ __vessels__ to her; and she poured out. +6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, __There__ __is__ not a vessel more. And the oil stayed. +7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest. +8 ¶ And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where __was__ a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And __so__ it was, __that__ as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. +9 And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this __is__ an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually. +10 Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither. +11 And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there. +12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him. +13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what __is__ to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people. +14 And he said, What then __is__ to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old. +15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. +16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, __thou__ man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid. +17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life. +18 ¶ And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. +19 And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. +20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and __then__ died. +21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut __the__ __door__ upon him, and went out. +22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again. +23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? __it__ __is__ neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, __It__ __shall__ __be__ well. +24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not __thy__ riding for me, except I bid thee. +25 So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, __yonder__ __is__ that Shunammite: +26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, __Is__ __it__ well with thee? __is__ __it__ well with thy husband? __is__ __it__ well with the child? And she answered, __It__ __is__ well. +27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul __is__ vexed within her: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath hid __it__ from me, and hath not told me. +28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me? +29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child. +30 And the mother of the child said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, and __as__ thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose, and followed her. +31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but __there__ __was__ neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked. +32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, __and__ laid upon his bed. +33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. +35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. +36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. +37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out. +38 ¶ And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and __there__ __was__ a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets __were__ sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. +39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred __them__ into the pot of pottage: for they knew __them__ not. +40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O __thou__ man of God, __there__ __is__ death in the pot. And they could not eat __thereof__. +41 But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast __it__ into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot. +42 ¶ And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat. +43 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, They shall eat, and shall leave __thereof__. +44 So he set __it__ before them, and they did eat, and left __thereof__, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 NOW Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, __but__ __he__ __was__ a leper. +2 And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. +3 And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord __were__ with the prophet that __is__ in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy. +4 And __one__ went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that __is__ of the land of Israel. +5 And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand __pieces__ of gold, and ten changes of raiment. +6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have __therewith__ sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy. +7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, __Am__ I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me. +8 ¶ And it was __so__, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel. +9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. +10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. +11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. +12 __Are__ not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. +13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, __if__ the prophet had bid thee __do__ __some__ great thing, wouldest thou not have done __it?__ how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? +14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. +15 ¶ And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that __there__ __is__ no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant. +16 But he said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take __it;__ but he refused. +17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 In this thing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ pardon thy servant, __that__ when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ pardon thy servant in this thing. +19 And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way. +20 ¶ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, __as__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him. +21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw __him__ running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, __Is__ all well? +22 And he said, All __is__ well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments. +23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid __them__ upon two of his servants; and they bare __them__ before him. +24 And when he came to the tower, he took __them__ from their hand, and bestowed __them__ in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed. +25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence __comest__ __thou__, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither. +26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart __with__ __thee__, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? __Is__ __it__ a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? +27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper __as__ __white__ as snow. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. +2 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. +3 And one said, Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go. +4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood. +5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed. +6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast __it__ in thither; and the iron did swim. +7 Therefore said he, Take __it__ up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it. +8 ¶ Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place __shall__ __be__ my camp. +9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. +10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice. +11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us __is__ for the king of Israel? +12 And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that __is__ in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber. +13 ¶ And he said, Go and spy where he __is__, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, __he__ __is__ in Dothan. +14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about. +15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? +16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that __be__ with us __are__ more than they that __be__ with them. +17 And Elisha prayed, and said, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain __was__ full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. +18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. +19 ¶ And Elisha said unto them, This __is__ not the way, neither __is__ this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. +20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, open the eyes of these __men__, that they may see. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, __they__ __were__ in the midst of Samaria. +21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite __them?__ shall I smite __them?__ +22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite __them:__ wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master. +23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel. +24 ¶ And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. +25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was __sold__ for fourscore __pieces__ of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five __pieces__ of silver. +26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. +27 And he said, If the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? +28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. +29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. +30 ¶ And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, __he__ __had__ sackcloth within upon his flesh. +31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day. +32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and __the__ __king__ sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: __is__ not the sound of his master's feet behind him? +33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil __is__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; what should I wait for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ any longer? +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 THEN Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, To morrow about this time __shall__ a measure of fine flour __be__ __sold__ for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. +2 Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, __if__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see __it__ with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. +3 ¶ And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? +4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine __is__ in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. +5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, __there__ __was__ no man there. +6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, __even__ the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. +7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it __was__, and fled for their life. +8 And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid __it;__ and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence __also__, and went and hid __it__. +9 Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day __is__ a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household. +10 So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, __there__ __was__ no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they __were__. +11 And he called the porters; and they told __it__ to the king's house within. +12 ¶ And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we __be__ hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city. +13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let __some__ take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they __are__ as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, __I__ __say__, they __are__ even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see. +14 They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. +15 And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way __was__ full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king. +16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was __sold__ for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 ¶ And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him. +18 And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria: +19 And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, __if__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. +20 And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 THEN spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years. +2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. +3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. +4 And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done. +5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this __is__ the woman, and this __is__ her son, whom Elisha restored to life. +6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that __was__ hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now. +7 ¶ And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither. +8 And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? +9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben-hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease? +10 And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath shewed me that he shall surely die. +11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept. +12 And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child. +13 And Hazael said, But what, __is__ thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath shewed me that thou __shalt__ __be__ king over Syria. +14 So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me __that__ thou shouldest surely recover. +15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped __it__ in water, and spread __it__ on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead. +16 ¶ And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat __being__ then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. +17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. +18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 Yet the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, __and__ to his children. +20 ¶ In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. +21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents. +22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time. +23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. +25 ¶ In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. +26 Two and twenty years old __was__ Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel. +27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as __did__ the house of Ahab: for he __was__ the son in law of the house of Ahab. +28 ¶ And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramoth-gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram. +29 And king Joram went back to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead: +2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber; +3 Then take the box of oil, and pour __it__ on his head, and say, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not. +4 ¶ So the young man, __even__ the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. +5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host __were__ sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain. +6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ over Israel. +7 And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, at the hand of Jezebel. +8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel: +9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah: +10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and __there__ __shall__ __be__ none to bury __her__. And he opened the door, and fled. +11 ¶ Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and __one__ said unto him, __Is__ all well? wherefore came this mad __fellow__ to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication. +12 And they said, __It__ __is__ false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have anointed thee king over Israel. +13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put __it__ under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king. +14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria. +15 But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, __then__ let none go forth __nor__ escape out of the city to go to tell __it__ in Jezreel. +16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram. +17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, __Is__ __it__ peace? +18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, __Is__ __it__ peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again. +19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, __Is__ __it__ peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. +20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving __is__ like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously. +21 And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. +22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, __Is__ __it__ peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts __are__ __so__ many? +23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, __There__ __is__ treachery, O Ahaziah. +24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. +25 Then said __Jehu__ to Bidkar his captain, Take up, __and__ cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ laid this burden upon him; +26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Now therefore take __and__ cast him into the plat __of__ __ground__, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 ¶ But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw __this__, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. __And__ __they__ __did__ __so__ at the going up to Gur, which __is__ by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there. +28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David. +29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah. +30 ¶ And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard __of__ __it;__ and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. +31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, __Had__ Zimri peace, who slew his master? +32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who __is__ on my side? who? And there looked out to him two __or__ three eunuchs. +33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down: and __some__ of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. +34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed __woman__, and bury her: for she __is__ a king's daughter. +35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of __her__ hands. +36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This __is__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: +37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; __so__ that they shall not say, This __is__ Jezebel. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's __children__, saying, +2 Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons __are__ with you, and __there__ __are__ with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour; +3 Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set __him__ on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house. +4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand? +5 And he that __was__ over the house, and he that __was__ over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up __of__ __the__ __children__, sent to Jehu, saying, We __are__ thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king: do thou __that__ __which__ __is__ good in thine eyes. +6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye __be__ mine, and __if__ ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, __being__ seventy persons, __were__ with the great men of the city, which brought them up. +7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him __them__ to Jezreel. +8 ¶ And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning. +9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye __be__ righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these? +10 Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath done __that__ which he spake by his servant Elijah. +11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining. +12 ¶ And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. __And__ as he __was__ at the shearing house in the way, +13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who __are__ ye? And they answered, We __are__ the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen. +14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, __even__ two and forty men; neither left he any of them. +15 ¶ And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab __coming__ to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart __is__ with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give __me__ thine hand. And he gave __him__ his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. +16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. So they made him ride in his chariot. +17 And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake to Elijah. +18 ¶ And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; __but__ Jehu shall serve him much. +19 Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice __to__ __do__ to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did __it__ in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. +20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed __it__. +21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another. +22 And he said unto him that __was__ over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments. +23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but the worshippers of Baal only. +24 And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, __If__ any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, __he__ __that__ __letteth__ __him__ __go__, his life __shall__ __be__ for the life of him. +25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, __and__ slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast __them__ out, and went to the city of the house of Baal. +26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them. +27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day. +28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. +29 ¶ Howbeit __from__ the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, __to__ __wit__, the golden calves that __were__ in Beth-el, and that __were__ in Dan. +30 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing __that__ __which__ __is__ right in mine eyes, __and__ hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that __was__ in mine heart, thy children of the fourth __generation__ shall sit on the throne of Israel. +31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin. +32 ¶ In those days the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel; +33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which __is__ by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. +34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +35 And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead. +36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria __was__ twenty and eight years. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. +2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons __which__ __were__ slain; and they hid him, __even__ him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. +3 And he was with her hid in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land. +4 ¶ And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and shewed them the king's son. +5 And he commanded them, saying, This __is__ the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king's house; +6 And a third part __shall__ __be__ at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard: so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be not broken down. +7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ about the king. +8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in. +9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all __things__ that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. +10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that __were__ in the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, __along__ by the altar and the temple. +12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and __gave__ __him__ the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king. +13 ¶ And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard __and__ of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner __was__, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason. +15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king's house: and there was she slain. +17 ¶ And Jehoiada made a covenant between the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ and the king and the people, that they should be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s people; between the king also and the people. +18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings. +20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword __beside__ the king's house. +21 Seven years old __was__ Jehoash when he began to reign. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 IN the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Zibiah of Beer-sheba. +2 And Jehoash did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. +3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. +4 ¶ And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ the money of every one that passeth __the__ __account__, the money that every man is set at, __and__ all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +5 Let the priests take __it__ to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found. +6 But it was __so__, __that__ in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. +7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the __other__ priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore receive no __more__ money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house. +8 And the priests consented to receive no __more__ money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house. +9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money __that__ __was__ brought into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 And it was __so__, when they saw that __there__ __was__ much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair __it__. +13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money __that__ __was__ brought into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully. +16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it was the priests'. +17 ¶ Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. +18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold __that__ __was__ found in the treasures of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and in the king's house, and sent __it__ to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem. +19 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla. +21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 IN the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, __and__ __reigned__ seventeen years. +2 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. +3 ¶ And the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, all __their__ days. +4 And Jehoahaz besought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them. +5 (And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. +6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, __but__ walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.) +7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing. +8 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead. +10 ¶ In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, __and__ __reigned__ sixteen years. +11 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: __but__ he walked therein. +12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. +14 ¶ Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. +15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. +16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand __upon__ __it:__ and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. +17 And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened __it__. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed __them__. +18 And he said, Take the arrows. And he took __them__. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed. +19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed __it:__ whereas now thou shalt smite Syria __but__ thrice. +20 ¶ And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. +21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band __of__ __men;__ and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. +22 ¶ But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. +23 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet. +24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his stead. +25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 IN the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah. +2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. +3 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did. +4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places. +5 ¶ And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father. +6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin. +7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day. +8 ¶ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. +9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that __was__ in Lebanon sent to the cedar that __was__ in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that __was__ in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle. +10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory __of__ __this__, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to __thy__ hurt, that thou shouldest fall, __even__ thou, and Judah with thee? +11 But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which __belongeth__ to Judah. +12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents. +13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits. +14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria. +15 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead. +17 ¶ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. +18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there. +20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. +21 ¶ And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which __was__ sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. +22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. +23 ¶ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, __and__ __reigned__ forty and one years. +24 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. +25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which __was__ of Gath-hepher. +26 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saw the affliction of Israel, __that__ __it__ __was__ very bitter: for __there__ __was__ not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. +27 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. +28 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, __which__ __belonged__ to Judah, for Israel, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, __even__ with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 IN the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. +2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Jecholiah of Jerusalem. +3 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; +4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places. +5 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son __was__ over the house, judging the people of the land. +6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. +8 ¶ In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. +9 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. +10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. +11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they __are__ written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. +12 This __was__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth __generation__. And so it came to pass. +13 ¶ Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria. +14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. +15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they __are__ written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. +16 ¶ Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that __were__ therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not __to__ __him__, therefore he smote __it;__ __and__ all the women therein that were with child he ripped up. +17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, __and__ __reigned__ ten years in Samaria. +18 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. +19 __And__ Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. +20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, __even__ of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land. +21 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? +22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead. +23 ¶ In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, __and__ __reigned__ two years. +24 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. +25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room. +26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they __are__ written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. +27 ¶ In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, __and__ __reigned__ twenty years. +28 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. +29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. +30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. +31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they __are__ written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. +32 ¶ In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. +33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. +34 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. +35 ¶ Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +36 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +37 In those days the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. +38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 IN the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. +2 Twenty years old __was__ Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, like David his father. +3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cast out from before the children of Israel. +4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. +5 ¶ Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome __him__. +6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. +7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I __am__ thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me. +8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent __it__ __for__ a present to the king of Assyria. +9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried __the__ __people__ __of__ it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. +10 ¶ And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that __was__ at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. +11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made __it__ against king Ahaz came from Damascus. +12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. +13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar. +14 And he brought also the brasen altar, which __was__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and put it on the north side of the altar. +15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to inquire __by__. +16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. +17 ¶ And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that __were__ under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones. +18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for the king of Assyria. +19 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 IN the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. +2 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. +3 ¶ Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. +4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as __he__ __had__ __done__ year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. +5 ¶ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. +6 ¶ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor __by__ the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. +7 For __so__ it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, +8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. +9 And the children of Israel did secretly __those__ things that __were__ not right against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. +10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: +11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as __did__ the heathen whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to anger: +12 For they served idols, whereof the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. +13 Yet the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, __and__ __by__ all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments __and__ my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. +14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God. +15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that __were__ round about them, __concerning__ whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had charged them, that they should not do like them. +16 And they left all the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and made them molten images, __even__ two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. +17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to provoke him to anger. +18 Therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. +19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. +21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and made them sin a great sin. +22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; +23 Until the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. +24 ¶ And the king of Assyria brought __men__ from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed __them__ in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. +25 And __so__ it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, __that__ they feared not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent lions among them, which slew __some__ of them. +26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. +27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land. +28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put __them__ in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. +30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, +31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. +32 So they feared the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. +33 They feared the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. +34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; +35 With whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: +36 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. +37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. +38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. +39 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. +40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. +41 So these nations feared the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 NOW it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, __that__ Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. +2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also __was__ Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. +3 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that David his father did. +4 ¶ He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. +5 He trusted in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor __any__ that were before him. +6 For he clave to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Moses. +7 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with him; __and__ he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. +8 He smote the Philistines, __even__ unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. +9 ¶ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which __was__ the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, __that__ Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. +10 And at the end of three years they took it: __even__ in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that __is__ the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. +11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor __by__ the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: +12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, but transgressed his covenant, __and__ all that Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded, and would not hear __them__, nor do __them__. +13 ¶ Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. +14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. +15 And Hezekiah gave __him__ all the silver that was found in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and in the treasures of the king's house. +16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off __the__ __gold__ __from__ the doors of the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and __from__ the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. +17 ¶ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which __is__ in the highway of the fuller's field. +18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which __was__ over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. +19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence __is__ this wherein thou trustest? +20 Thou sayest, (but __they__ __are__ __but__ vain words,) __I__ __have__ counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? +21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, __even__ upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so __is__ Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. +22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God: __is__ not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? +23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. +24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? +25 Am I now come up without the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ against this place to destroy it? The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. +26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand __it:__ and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that __are__ on the wall. +27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? __hath__ __he__ not __sent__ __me__ to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? +28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria: +29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand: +30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. +31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make __an__ __agreement__ with me by a present, and come out to me, and __then__ eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern: +32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will deliver us. +33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? +34 Where __are__ the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where __are__ the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? +35 Who __are__ they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? +36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. +37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which __was__ over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with __their__ clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard __it__, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 And he sent Eliakim, which __was__ over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. +3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day __is__ a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and __there__ __is__ not strength to bring forth. +4 It may be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up __thy__ prayer for the remnant that are left. +5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. +6 ¶ And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. +7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. +8 ¶ So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. +9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying, +10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. +11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? +12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; __as__ Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which __were__ in Thelasar? +13 Where __is__ the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? +14 ¶ And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and spread it before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 And Hezekiah prayed before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, which dwellest __between__ the cherubims, thou art the God, __even__ thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. +16 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God. +17 Of a truth, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, +18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they __were__ no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. +19 Now therefore, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou __art__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, __even__ thou only. +20 ¶ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, __That__ which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. +21 This __is__ the word that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, __and__ laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. +22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted __thy__ voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? __even__ against the Holy __One__ of Israel. +23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, __and__ the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, __and__ __into__ the forest of his Carmel. +24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. +25 Hast thou not heard long ago __how__ I have done it, __and__ of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities __into__ ruinous heaps. +26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were __as__ the grass of the field, and __as__ the green herb, __as__ the grass on the housetops, and __as__ __corn__ blasted before it be grown up. +27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. +28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. +29 And this __shall__ __be__ a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof. +30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. +31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __of__ __hosts__ shall do this. +32 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. +33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. +35 ¶ And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they __were__ all dead corpses. +36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. +37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 IN those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. +2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +3 I beseech thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done __that__ __which__ __is__ good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. +4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to him, saying, +5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. +7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid __it__ on the boil, and he recovered. +8 ¶ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What __shall__ __be__ the sign that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the third day? +9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? +10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. +11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. +12 ¶ At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. +13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and __all__ the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. +14 ¶ Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, __even__ from Babylon. +15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All __the__ __things__ that __are__ in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. +16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 Behold, the days come, that all that __is__ in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. +19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good __is__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which thou hast spoken. And he said, __Is__ __it__ not __good__, if peace and truth be in my days? +20 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 MANASSEH __was__ twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Hephzi-bah. +2 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cast out before the children of Israel. +3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. +4 And he built altars in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, of which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. +5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to provoke __him__ to anger. +7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: +8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. +9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ destroyed before the children of Israel. +10 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake by his servants the prophets, saying, +11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, __and__ hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which __were__ before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: +12 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Behold, I __am__ bringing __such__ evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. +13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as __a__ __man__ wipeth a dish, wiping __it__, and turning __it__ upside down. +14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; +15 Because they have done __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day. +16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. +19 ¶ Amon __was__ twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. +20 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as his father Manasseh did. +21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: +22 And he forsook the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 ¶ And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. +24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. +25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 JOSIAH __was__ eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. +2 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. +3 ¶ And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, __that__ the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people: +5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and let them give it to the doers of the work which __is__ in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to repair the breaches of the house, +6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. +7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully. +8 ¶ And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. +9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. +11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. +12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying, +13 Go ye, inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great __is__ the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us. +14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her. +15 ¶ And she said unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me, +16 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, __even__ all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read: +17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. +18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, __As__ __touching__ the words which thou hast heard; +19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard __thee__, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 AND the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. +2 And the king went up into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 ¶ And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to walk after the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all __their__ heart and all __their__ soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. +4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. +5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. +6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped __it__ small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. +7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that __were__ by the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, where the women wove hangings for the grove. +8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that __were__ in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which __were__ on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. +9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. +10 And he defiled Topheth, which __is__ in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. +11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which __was__ in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. +12 And the altars that __were__ on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, did the king beat down, and brake __them__ down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. +13 And the high places that __were__ before Jerusalem, which __were__ on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. +14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men. +15 ¶ Moreover the altar that __was__ at Beth-el, __and__ the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, __and__ stamped __it__ small to powder, and burned the grove. +16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that __were__ there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned __them__ upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words. +17 Then he said, What title __is__ that that I see? And the men of the city told him, __It__ __is__ the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el. +18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria. +19 And all the houses also of the high places that __were__ in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el. +20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that __were__ there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. +21 ¶ And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, as __it__ __is__ written in the book of this covenant. +22 Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; +23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, __wherein__ this passover was holden to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Jerusalem. +24 ¶ Moreover the __workers__ __with__ familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there __any__ like him. +26 ¶ Notwithstanding the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal. +27 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there. +28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +29 ¶ In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. +30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. +31 ¶ Jehoahaz __was__ twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. +32 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that his fathers had done. +33 And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. +34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there. +35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give __it__ unto Pharaoh-nechoh. +36 ¶ Jehoiakim __was__ twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. +37 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that his fathers had done. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 IN his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake by his servants the prophets. +3 Surely at the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came __this__ upon Judah, to remove __them__ out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; +4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ would not pardon. +5 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? +6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. +7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt. +8 ¶ Jehoiachin __was__ eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name __was__ Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. +9 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that his father had done. +10 ¶ At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. +11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it. +12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. +13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said. +14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, __even__ ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. +15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, __those__ carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. +16 And all the men of might, __even__ seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all __that__ __were__ strong __and__ apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. +17 ¶ And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. +18 Zedekiah __was__ twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. +19 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. +20 For through the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 AND it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth __day__ of the month, __that__ Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. +2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. +3 And on the ninth __day__ of the __fourth__ month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. +4 ¶ And the city was broken up, and all the men of war __fled__ by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which __is__ by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees __were__ against the city round about:) and __the__ __king__ went the way toward the plain. +5 And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. +6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. +7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon. +8 ¶ And in the fifth month, on the seventh __day__ of the month, which __is__ the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: +9 And he burnt the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great __man__'__s__ house burnt he with fire. +10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that __were__ __with__ the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. +11 Now the rest of the people __that__ __were__ left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away. +12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land __to__ __be__ vinedressers and husbandmen. +13 And the pillars of brass that __were__ in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the bases, and the brasen sea that __was__ in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. +14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. +15 And the firepans, and the bowls, __and__ such things as __were__ of gold, __in__ gold, and of silver, __in__ silver, the captain of the guard took away. +16 The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. +17 The height of the one pillar __was__ eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it __was__ brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. +18 ¶ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: +19 And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land __that__ __were__ found in the city: +20 And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah: +21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away out of their land. +22 ¶ And __as__ __for__ the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. +23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. +24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you. +25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. +26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees. +27 ¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth __day__ of the month, __that__ Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; +28 And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that __were__ with him in Babylon; +29 And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. +30 And his allowance __was__ a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. +:::SET BOOK 1 Chronicles +:::SET TITLE The First Book of the Chronicles +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 ADAM, Sheth, Enosh, +2 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered, +3 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech, +4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. +5 ¶ The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. +6 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. +7 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. +8 ¶ The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. +9 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. +10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth. +11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, +12 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim. +13 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth, +14 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, +15 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, +16 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. +17 ¶ The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech. +18 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber. +19 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one __was__ Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name __was__ Joktan. +20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, +21 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah, +22 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba, +23 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these __were__ the sons of Joktan. +24 ¶ Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, +25 Eber, Peleg, Reu, +26 Serug, Nahor, Terah, +27 Abram; the same __is__ Abraham. +28 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael. +29 ¶ These __are__ their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, +30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, +31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. +32 ¶ Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan. +33 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these __are__ the sons of Keturah. +34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel. +35 ¶ The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. +36 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek. +37 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. +38 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan. +39 And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna __was__ Lotan's sister. +40 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah. +41 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. +42 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, __and__ Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran. +43 ¶ Now these __are__ the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before __any__ king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city __was__ Dinhabah. +44 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. +45 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. +46 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city __was__ Avith. +47 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. +48 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead. +49 And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. +50 And when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city __was__ Pai; and his wife's name __was__ Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. +51 ¶ Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth, +52 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, +53 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, +54 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These __are__ the dukes of Edom. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THESE __are__ the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, +2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. +3 ¶ The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: __which__ three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and he slew him. +4 And Tamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah __were__ five. +5 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul. +6 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all. +7 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed. +8 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah. +9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai. +10 And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah; +11 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz, +12 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse, +13 ¶ And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third, +14 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, +15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh: +16 Whose sisters __were__ Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. +17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa __was__ Jether the Ishmeelite. +18 ¶ And Caleb the son of Hezron begat __children__ of Azubah __his__ wife, and of Jerioth: her sons __are__ these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. +19 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur. +20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel. +21 ¶ And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he __was__ threescore years old; and she bare him Segub. +22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead. +23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, __even__ threescore cities. All these __belonged__ __to__ the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. +24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa. +25 ¶ And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, __and__ Ahijah. +26 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name __was__ Atarah; she __was__ the mother of Onam. +27 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker. +28 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur. +29 And the name of the wife of Abishur __was__ Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid. +30 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children. +31 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai. +32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children. +33 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel. +34 ¶ Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name __was__ Jarha. +35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai. +36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad, +37 And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed, +38 And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah, +39 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah, +40 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum, +41 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama. +42 ¶ Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel __were__, Mesha his firstborn, which __was__ the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron. +43 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema. +44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai. +45 And the son of Shammai __was__ Maon: and Maon __was__ the father of Beth-zur. +46 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez. +47 And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. +48 Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah. +49 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb __was__ Achsah. +50 ¶ These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim, +51 Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader. +52 And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, __and__ half of the Manahethites. +53 And the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites. +54 The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites. +55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, __and__ Suchathites. These __are__ the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 NOW these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess: +2 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith: +3 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife. +4 __These__ six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years. +5 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel: +6 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet, +7 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, +8 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. +9 __These__ __were__ all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister. +10 ¶ And Solomon's son __was__ Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, +11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, +12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, +13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, +14 Amon his son, Josiah his son. +15 And the sons of Josiah __were__, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. +16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. +17 ¶ And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son, +18 Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. +19 And the sons of Pedaiah __were__, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister: +20 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five. +21 And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah. +22 And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six. +23 And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three. +24 And the sons of Elioenai __were__, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 THE sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal. +2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These __are__ the families of the Zorathites. +3 And these __were__ __of__ the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister __was__ Hazelelponi: +4 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These __are__ the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Beth-lehem. +5 ¶ And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. +6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These __were__ the sons of Naarah. +7 And the sons of Helah __were__, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan. +8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. +9 ¶ And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. +10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep __me__ from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. +11 ¶ And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which __was__ the father of Eshton. +12 And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These __are__ the men of Rechah. +13 And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath. +14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen. +15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz. +16 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel. +17 And the sons of Ezra __were__, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. +18 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these __are__ the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took. +19 And the sons of __his__ wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite. +20 And the sons of Shimon __were__, Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi __were__, Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth. +21 ¶ The sons of Shelah the son of Judah __were__, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea, +22 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And __these__ __are__ ancient things. +23 These __were__ the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. +24 ¶ The sons of Simeon __were__, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, __and__ Shaul: +25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. +26 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son. +27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah. +28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, +29 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, +30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, +31 And at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-birei, and at Shaaraim. These __were__ their cities unto the reign of David. +32 And their villages __were__, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities: +33 And all their villages that __were__ round about the same cities, unto Baal. These __were__ their habitations, and their genealogy. +34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, +35 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, +36 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah, +37 And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah; +38 These mentioned by __their__ names __were__ princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly. +39 ¶ And they went to the entrance of Gedor, __even__ unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. +40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land __was__ wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for __they__ of Ham had dwelt there of old. +41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because __there__ __was__ pasture there for their flocks. +42 And __some__ of them, __even__ of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. +43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 NOW the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he __was__ the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. +2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him __came__ the chief ruler; but the birthright __was__ Joseph's:) +3 The sons, __I__ __say__, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel __were__, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. +4 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, +5 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son, +6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away __captive:__ he __was__ prince of the Reubenites. +7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, __were__ the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, +8 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon: +9 And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead. +10 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east __land__ of Gilead. +11 ¶ And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah: +12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan. +13 And their brethren of the house of their fathers __were__, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven. +14 These __are__ the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; +15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers. +16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders. +17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. +18 ¶ The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, __were__ four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war. +19 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab. +20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that __were__ with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him. +21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand. +22 For there fell down many slain, because the war __was__ of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity. +23 ¶ And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal-hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon. +24 And these __were__ the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, __and__ heads of the house of their fathers. +25 ¶ And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. +26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 THE sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. +2 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. +3 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. +4 ¶ Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, +5 And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, +6 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth, +7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, +8 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz, +9 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan, +10 And Johanan begat Azariah, (he __it__ __is__ that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:) +11 And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub, +12 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum, +13 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah, +14 And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak, +15 And Jehozadak went __into__ __captivity__, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. +16 ¶ The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. +17 And these __be__ the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei. +18 And the sons of Kohath __were__, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. +19 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these __are__ the families of the Levites according to their fathers. +20 Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, +21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son. +22 The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, +23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son, +24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. +25 And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth. +26 __As__ __for__ Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son, +27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. +28 And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah. +29 The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son, +30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. +31 And these __are__ __they__ whom David set over the service of song in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, after that the ark had rest. +32 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Jerusalem: and __then__ they waited on their office according to their order. +33 And these __are__ they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel, +34 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, +35 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, +36 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, +37 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, +38 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. +39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, __even__ Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea, +40 The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah, +41 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, +42 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, +43 The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. +44 And their brethren the sons of Merari __stood__ on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, +45 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, +46 The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer, +47 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. +48 Their brethren also the Levites __were__ appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God. +49 ¶ But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, __and__ __were__ __appointed__ for all the work of the __place__ most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. +50 And these __are__ the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, +51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, +52 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, +53 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. +54 ¶ Now these __are__ their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot. +55 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it. +56 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. +57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, __namely__, Hebron, __the__ __city__ of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs, +58 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs, +59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs: +60 And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families __were__ thirteen cities. +61 And unto the sons of Kohath, __which__ __were__ left of the family of that tribe, __were__ __cities__ __given__ out of the half tribe, __namely__, __out__ __of__ the half __tribe__ of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities. +62 And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. +63 Unto the sons of Merari __were__ __given__ by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. +64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites __these__ cities with their suburbs. +65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by __their__ names. +66 And __the__ __residue__ of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim. +67 And they gave unto them, __of__ the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; __they__ __gave__ also Gezer with her suburbs, +68 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs, +69 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs: +70 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath. +71 Unto the sons of Gershom __were__ __given__ out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs: +72 And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs, +73 And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs: +74 And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs, +75 And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs: +76 And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs. +77 Unto the rest of the children of Merari __were__ __given__ out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs: +78 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, __were__ __given__ __them__ out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs, +79 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs: +80 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs, +81 And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 NOW the sons of Issachar __were__, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. +2 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, __to__ __wit__, of Tola: __they__ __were__ valiant men of might in their generations; whose number __was__ in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred. +3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men. +4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, __were__ bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand __men:__ for they had many wives and sons. +5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar __were__ valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand. +6 ¶ __The__ __sons__ of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three. +7 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of __their__ fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four. +8 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these __are__ the sons of Becher. +9 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, __was__ twenty thousand and two hundred. +10 The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar. +11 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, __were__ seventeen thousand and two hundred __soldiers__, fit to go out for war __and__ battle. +12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, __and__ Hushim, the sons of Aher. +13 ¶ The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah. +14 ¶ The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (__but__ his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead: +15 And Machir took to wife __the__ __sister__ of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name __was__ Maachah;) and the name of the second __was__ Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters. +16 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother __was__ Sheresh; and his sons __were__ Ulam and Rakem. +17 And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These __were__ the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh. +18 And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. +19 And the sons of Shemida were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. +20 ¶ And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son, +21 ¶ And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath __that__ __were__ born in __that__ land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle. +22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him. +23 ¶ And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house. +24 (And his daughter __was__ Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.) +25 And Rephah __was__ his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son, +26 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, +27 Non his son, Jehoshua his son. +28 ¶ And their possessions and habitations __were__, Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof: +29 And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel. +30 ¶ The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. +31 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who __is__ the father of Birzavith. +32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister. +33 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These __are__ the children of Japhlet. +34 And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. +35 And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal. +36 The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, +37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. +38 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. +39 And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia. +40 All these __were__ the children of Asher, heads of __their__ father's house, choice __and__ mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war __and__ to battle __was__ twenty and six thousand men. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 NOW Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third, +2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. +3 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud, +4 And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah, +5 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram. +6 And these __are__ the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath: +7 And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud. +8 And Shaharaim begat __children__ in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara __were__ his wives. +9 And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham, +10 And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These __were__ his sons, heads of the fathers. +11 And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal. +12 The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof: +13 Beriah also, and Shema, who __were__ heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath: +14 And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth, +15 And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader, +16 And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah; +17 And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber, +18 Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal; +19 And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi, +20 And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel, +21 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi; +22 And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel, +23 And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan, +24 And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah, +25 And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak; +26 And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah, +27 And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham. +28 These __were__ heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief __men__. These dwelt in Jerusalem. +29 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name __was__ Maachah: +30 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab, +31 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher. +32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them. +33 ¶ And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal. +34 And the son of Jonathan __was__ Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah. +35 And the sons of Micah __were__, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz. +36 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza, +37 And Moza begat Binea: Rapha __was__ his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son: +38 And Azel had six sons, whose names __are__ these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these __were__ the sons of Azel. +39 And the sons of Eshek his brother __were__, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third. +40 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these __are__ of the sons of Benjamin. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 SO all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they __were__ written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, __who__ were carried away to Babylon for their transgression. +2 ¶ Now the first inhabitants that __dwelt__ in their possessions in their cities __were__, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims. +3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh; +4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah. +5 And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons. +6 And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety. +7 And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah, +8 And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah; +9 And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men __were__ chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers. +10 ¶ And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin, +11 And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God; +12 And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer; +13 And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God. +14 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; +15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; +16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites. +17 And the porters __were__, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum __was__ the chief; +18 Who hitherto __waited__ in the king's gate eastward: they __were__ porters in the companies of the children of Levi. +19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, __were__ over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, __being__ over the host of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __were__ keepers of the entry. +20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, __and__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ with him. +21 __And__ Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah __was__ porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. +22 All these __which__ __were__ chosen to be porters in the gates __were__ two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office. +23 So they and their children __had__ the oversight of the gates of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __namely__, the house of the tabernacle, by wards. +24 In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south. +25 And their brethren, __which__ __were__ in their villages, __were__ to come after seven days from time to time with them. +26 For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in __their__ set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God. +27 ¶ And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge __was__ upon them, and the opening thereof every morning __pertained__ to them. +28 And __certain__ of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale. +29 __Some__ of them also __were__ appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices. +30 And __some__ of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices. +31 And Mattithiah, __one__ of the Levites, who __was__ the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans. +32 And __other__ of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, __were__ over the shewbread, to prepare __it__ every sabbath. +33 And these __are__ the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, __who__ __remaining__ in the chambers __were__ free: for they were employed in __that__ work day and night. +34 These chief fathers of the Levites __were__ chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem. +35 ¶ And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name __was__ Maachah: +36 And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab, +37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth. +38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren. +39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal. +40 And the son of Jonathan __was__ Merib-baal: and Merib-baal begat Micah. +41 And the sons of Micah __were__, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, __and__ __Ahaz__. +42 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza; +43 And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. +44 And Azel had six sons, whose names __are__ these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these __were__ the sons of Azel. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 NOW the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. +2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. +3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers. +4 Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. +5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died. +6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together. +7 And when all the men of Israel that __were__ in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. +8 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa. +9 And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people. +10 And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon. +11 ¶ And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, +12 They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. +13 ¶ So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ against the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he kept not, and also for asking __counsel__ of __one__ __that__ __had__ a familiar spirit, to inquire __of__ __it;__ +14 And inquired not of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 THEN all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we __are__ thy bone and thy flesh. +2 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou __wast__ he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel. +3 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by Samuel. +4 ¶ And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which __is__ Jebus; where the Jebusites __were__, the inhabitants of the land. +5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which __is__ the city of David. +6 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief. +7 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David. +8 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city. +9 So David waxed greater and greater: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __was__ with him. +10 ¶ These also __are__ the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, __and__ with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ concerning Israel. +11 And this __is__ the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain __by__ __him__ at one time. +12 And after him __was__ Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who __was__ __one__ of the three mighties. +13 He was with David at Pas-dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines. +14 And they set themselves in the midst of __that__ parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saved __them__ by a great deliverance. +15 ¶ Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. +16 And David __was__ then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison __was__ then at Beth-lehem. +17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth-lehem, that __is__ at the gate! +18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that __was__ by the gate, and took __it__, and brought __it__ to David: but David would not drink __of__ it, but poured it out to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +19 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with __the__ __jeopardy__ __of__ their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest. +20 ¶ And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew __them__, and had a name among the three. +21 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the __first__ three. +22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day. +23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of __great__ stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand __was__ a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. +24 These __things__ did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties. +25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the __first__ three: and David set him over his guard. +26 ¶ Also the valiant men of the armies __were__, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem, +27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, +28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi-ezer the Antothite, +29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, +30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, +31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, __that__ __pertained__ to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, +32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, +33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, +34 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite, +35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, +36 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, +37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, +38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri, +39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah, +40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, +41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, +42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, +43 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite, +44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite, +45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, +46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite, +47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 NOW these __are__ they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they __were__ among the mighty men, helpers of the war. +2 __They__ __were__ armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in __hurling__ stones and __shooting__ arrows out of a bow, __even__ of Saul's brethren of Benjamin. +3 The chief __was__ Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite, +4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite, +5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite, +6 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites, +7 And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor. +8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, __and__ men of war __fit__ for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces __were__ __like__ the faces of lions, and __were__ as swift as the roes upon the mountains; +9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, +10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, +11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, +12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, +13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh. +14 These __were__ of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least __was__ over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand. +15 These __are__ they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all __them__ of the valleys, __both__ toward the east, and toward the west. +16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David. +17 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if __ye__ __be__ __come__ to betray me to mine enemies, seeing __there__ __is__ no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look __thereon__, and rebuke __it__. +18 Then the spirit came upon Amasai, __who__ __was__ chief of the captains, __and__ __he__ __said__, Thine __are__ __we__, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace __be__ unto thee, and peace __be__ to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band. +19 And there fell __some__ of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to __the__ __jeopardy__ __of__ our heads. +20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that __were__ of Manasseh. +21 And they helped David against the band __of__ __the__ __rovers:__ for they __were__ all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host. +22 For at __that__ time day by day there came to David to help him, until __it__ __was__ a great host, like the host of God. +23 ¶ And these __are__ the numbers of the bands __that__ __were__ ready armed to the war, __and__ came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +24 The children of Judah that bare shield and spear __were__ six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war. +25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred. +26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred. +27 And Jehoiada __was__ the leader of the Aaronites, and with him __were__ three thousand and seven hundred; +28 And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains. +29 And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul. +30 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers. +31 And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king. +32 And of the children of Issachar, __which__ __were__ __men__ that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them __were__ two hundred; and all their brethren __were__ at their commandment. +33 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: __they__ __were__ not of double heart. +34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand. +35 And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred. +36 And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand. +37 And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand. +38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel __were__ of one heart to make David king. +39 And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them. +40 Moreover they that were nigh them, __even__ unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, __and__ meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for __there__ __was__ joy in Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, __and__ with every leader. +2 And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If __it__ __seem__ good unto you, and __that__ __it__ __be__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, __that__ __are__ left in all the land of Israel, and with them __also__ to the priests and Levites __which__ __are__ in their cities __and__ suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us: +3 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul. +4 And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. +5 So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim. +6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, __that__ __is__, to Kirjath-jearim, which __belonged__ to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that dwelleth __between__ the cherubims, whose name is called __on__ __it__. +7 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart. +8 And David and all Israel played before God with all __their__ might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets. +9 ¶ And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. +10 And the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God. +11 And David was displeased, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day. +12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God __home__ to me? +13 So David brought not the ark __home__ to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. +14 And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 NOW Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house. +2 And David perceived that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel. +3 ¶ And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters. +4 Now these __are__ the names of __his__ children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, +5 And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet, +6 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia, +7 And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet. +8 ¶ And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard __of__ __it__, and went out against them. +9 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. +10 And David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand. +11 So they came up to Baal-perazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim. +12 And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire. +13 And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley. +14 Therefore David inquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. +15 And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, __that__ then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines. +16 David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer. +17 And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought the fear of him upon all nations. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AND __David__ made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. +2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever. +3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto his place, which he had prepared for it. +4 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: +5 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty: +6 Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty: +7 Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty: +8 Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred: +9 Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore: +10 Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve. +11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, +12 And said unto them, Ye __are__ the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, __both__ ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel unto __the__ __place__ __that__ I have prepared for it. +13 For because ye __did__ __it__ not at the first, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. +14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +15 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren __to__ __be__ the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy. +17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; +18 And with them their brethren of the second __degree__, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters. +19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, __were__ __appointed__ to sound with cymbals of brass; +20 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth; +21 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel. +22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, __was__ for song: he instructed about the song, because he __was__ skilful. +23 And Berechiah and Elkanah __were__ doorkeepers for the ark. +24 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah __were__ doorkeepers for the ark. +25 ¶ So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ out of the house of Obed-edom with joy. +26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. +27 And David __was__ clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also __had__ upon him an ephod of linen. +28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps. +29 ¶ And it came to pass, __as__ the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 SO they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God. +2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon __of__ __wine__. +4 ¶ And he appointed __certain__ of the Levites to minister before the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to record, and to thank and praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel: +5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; +6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God. +7 ¶ Then on that day David delivered first __this__ __psalm__ to thank the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ into the hand of Asaph and his brethren. +8 Give thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people. +9 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works. +10 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 Seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ and his strength, seek his face continually. +12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; +13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. +14 He __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God; his judgments __are__ in all the earth. +15 Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word __which__ he commanded to a thousand generations; +16 __Even__ __of__ __the__ __covenant__ which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac; +17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, __and__ to Israel __for__ an everlasting covenant, +18 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance; +19 When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it. +20 And __when__ they went from nation to nation, and from __one__ kingdom to another people; +21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, +22 __Saying__, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. +23 Sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. +24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations. +25 For great __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and greatly to be praised: he also __is__ to be feared above all gods. +26 For all the gods of the people __are__ idols: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made the heavens. +27 Glory and honour __are__ in his presence; strength and gladness __are__ in his place. +28 Give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ glory and strength. +29 Give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the glory __due__ unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the beauty of holiness. +30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved. +31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let __men__ say among the nations, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ reigneth. +32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that __is__ therein. +33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because he cometh to judge the earth. +34 O give thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for __he__ __is__ good; for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +35 And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, __and__ glory in thy praise. +36 Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +37 ¶ So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required: +38 And Obed-edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah __to__ __be__ porters: +39 And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the high place that __was__ at Gibeon, +40 To offer burnt offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and __to__ __do__ according to all that is written in the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he commanded Israel; +41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because his mercy __endureth__ for ever; +42 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun __were__ porters. +43 And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 NOW it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __remaineth__ under curtains. +2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that __is__ in thine heart; for God __is__ with thee. +3 ¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, +4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: +5 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from __one__ tabernacle __to__ __another__. +6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars? +7 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, __even__ from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel: +8 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that __are__ in the earth. +9 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, +10 And since the time that I commanded judges __to__ __be__ over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will build thee an house. +11 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go __to__ __be__ with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. +12 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever. +13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took __it__ from __him__ that was before thee: +14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore. +15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David. +16 ¶ And David the king came and sat before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, Who __am__ I, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, and what __is__ mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? +17 And __yet__ this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast __also__ spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God. +18 What can David __speak__ more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant. +19 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all __these__ great things. +20 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __there__ __is__ none like thee, neither __is__ __there__ __any__ God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. +21 And what one nation in the earth __is__ like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem __to__ __be__ his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? +22 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, becamest their God. +23 Therefore now, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said. +24 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ the God of Israel, __even__ a God to Israel: and __let__ the house of David thy servant __be__ established before thee. +25 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found __in__ __his__ __heart__ to pray before thee. +26 And now, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: +27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and __it__ __shall__ __be__ blessed for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 NOW after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines. +2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, __and__ brought gifts. +3 ¶ And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates. +4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot __horses__, but reserved of them an hundred chariots. +5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. +6 Then David put __garrisons__ in Syria-damascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, __and__ brought gifts. Thus the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ preserved David whithersoever he went. +7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. +8 Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass. +9 ¶ Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah; +10 He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and __with__ __him__ all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass. +11 ¶ Them also king David dedicated unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all __these__ nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. +12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand. +13 ¶ And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ preserved David whithersoever he went. +14 ¶ So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people. +15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah __was__ over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder. +16 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, __were__ the priests; and Shavsha was scribe; +17 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada __was__ over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David __were__ chief about the king. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 NOW it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead. +2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. +3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? +4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away. +5 Then there went __certain__, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and __then__ return. +6 ¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah. +7 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle. +8 And when David heard __of__ __it__, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. +9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come __were__ by themselves in the field. +10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put __them__ in array against the Syrians. +11 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set __themselves__ in array against the children of Ammon. +12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee. +13 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do __that__ __which__ __is__ good in his sight. +14 So Joab and the people that __were__ with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him. +15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. +16 ¶ And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that __were__ beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer __went__ before them. +17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set __the__ __battle__ in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him. +18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand __men__ __which__ __fought__ __in__ chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host. +19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out __to__ __battle__, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it. +2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and __there__ __were__ precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city. +3 And he brought out the people that __were__ in it, and cut __them__ with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. +4 ¶ And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, __that__ __was__ of the children of the giant: and they were subdued. +5 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff __was__ like a weaver's beam. +6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of __great__ stature, whose fingers and toes __were__ four and twenty, six __on__ __each__ __hand__, and six __on__ __each__ __foot:__ and he also was the son of the giant. +7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him. +8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. +2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know __it__. +3 And Joab answered, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ make his people an hundred times so many more as they __be:__ but, my lord the king, __are__ they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? +4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. +5 ¶ And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all __they__ __of__ Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah __was__ four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. +6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab. +7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. +8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. +9 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying, +10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I offer thee three __things:__ choose thee one of them, that I may do __it__ unto thee. +11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Choose thee +12 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh __thee;__ or else three days the sword of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. +13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for very great __are__ his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man. +14 ¶ So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. +15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. +16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders __of__ __Israel__, __who__ __were__ clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. +17 And David said unto God, __Is__ __it__ not I __that__ commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but __as__ __for__ these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued. +18 ¶ Then the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. +19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. +21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with __his__ face to the ground. +22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of __this__ threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. +23 And Ornan said unto David, Take __it__ to thee, and let my lord the king do __that__ __which__ __is__ good in his eyes: lo, I give __thee__ the oxen __also__ for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all. +24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take __that__ which __is__ thine for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. +25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. +26 And David built there an altar unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. +27 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof. +28 ¶ At that time when David saw that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. +29 For the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, __were__ at that season in the high place at Gibeon. +30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 THEN David said, This __is__ the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, and this __is__ the altar of the burnt offering for Israel. +2 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that __were__ in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. +3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; +4 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David. +5 And David said, Solomon my son __is__ young and tender, and the house __that__ __is__ to be builded for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __must__ __be__ exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will __therefore__ now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death. +6 ¶ Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +7 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God: +8 But the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight. +9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. +10 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I __will__ __be__ his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever. +11 Now, my son, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, as he hath said of thee. +12 Only the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +13 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed. +14 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. +15 Moreover __there__ __are__ workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. +16 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, __there__ __is__ no number. Arise __therefore__, and be doing, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be with thee. +17 ¶ David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, __saying__, +18 __Is__ not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God with you? and hath he __not__ given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and before his people. +19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 SO when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. +2 ¶ And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. +3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. +4 Of which, twenty and four thousand __were__ to set forward the work of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and six thousand __were__ officers and judges: +5 Moreover four thousand __were__ porters; and four thousand praised the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with the instruments which I made, __said__ __David__, to praise __therewith__. +6 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, __namely__, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. +7 ¶ Of the Gershonites __were__, Laadan, and Shimei. +8 The sons of Laadan; the chief __was__ Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three. +9 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These __were__ the chief of the fathers of Laadan. +10 And the sons of Shimei __were__, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four __were__ the sons of Shimei. +11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to __their__ father's house. +12 ¶ The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. +13 The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever. +14 Now __concerning__ Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi. +15 The sons of Moses __were__, Gershom, and Eliezer. +16 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel __was__ the chief. +17 And the sons of Eliezer __were__, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. +18 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief. +19 Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. +20 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second. +21 ¶ The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish. +22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them. +23 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three. +24 ¶ These __were__ the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; __even__ the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from the age of twenty years and upward. +25 For David said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever: +26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no __more__ carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof. +27 For by the last words of David the Levites __were__ numbered from twenty years old and above: +28 Because their office __was__ to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God; +29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for __that__ __which__ __is__ __baked__ __in__ the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size; +30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and likewise at even; +31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy __place__, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 NOW __these__ __are__ the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. +2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office. +3 And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service. +4 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and __thus__ were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar __there__ __were__ sixteen chief men of the house of __their__ fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers. +5 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors __of__ __the__ __house__ of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar. +6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, __one__ of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and __before__ the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and __one__ taken for Ithamar. +7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, +8 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, +9 The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, +10 The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, +11 The ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, +12 The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, +13 The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, +14 The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, +15 The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses, +16 The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel, +17 The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul, +18 The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah. +19 These __were__ the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel had commanded him. +20 ¶ And the rest of the sons of Levi __were__ __these:__ Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah. +21 Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first __was__ Isshiah. +22 Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath. +23 And the sons __of__ __Hebron;__ Jeriah __the__ __first__, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. +24 __Of__ the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir. +25 The brother of Michah __was__ Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah. +26 The sons of Merari __were__ Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno. +27 ¶ The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri. +28 Of Mahli __came__ Eleazar, who had no sons. +29 Concerning Kish: the son of Kish __was__ Jerahmeel. +30 The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These __were__ the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers. +31 These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 MOREOVER David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was: +2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king. +3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, __and__ Mahazioth: +5 All these __were__ the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. +6 All these __were__ under the hands of their father for song __in__ the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman. +7 So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight. +8 ¶ And they cast lots, ward against __ward__, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar. +9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons __were__ twelve: +10 The third to Zaccur, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +11 The fourth to Izri, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +12 The fifth to Nethaniah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +13 The sixth to Bukkiah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +14 The seventh to Jesharelah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +15 The eighth to Jeshaiah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +16 The ninth to Mattaniah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +17 The tenth to Shimei, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +18 The eleventh to Azareel, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +19 The twelfth to Hashabiah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +20 The thirteenth to Shubael, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +21 The fourteenth to Mattithiah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +22 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +23 The sixteenth to Hananiah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +24 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +25 The eighteenth to Hanani, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +26 The nineteenth to Mallothi, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +27 The twentieth to Eliathah, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +28 The one and twentieth to Hothir, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +29 The two and twentieth to Giddalti, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +30 The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve: +31 The four and twentieth to Romamti-ezer, __he__, his sons, and his brethren, __were__ twelve. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 CONCERNING the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites __was__ Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph. +2 And the sons of Meshelemiah __were__, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, +3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh. +4 Moreover the sons of Obed-edom __were__, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth, +5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him. +6 Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they __were__ mighty men of valour. +7 The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren __were__ strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah. +8 All these of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, __were__ threescore and two of Obed-edom. +9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen. +10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for __though__ he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;) +11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah __were__ thirteen. +12 Among these __were__ the divisions of the porters, __even__ among the chief men, __having__ wards one against another, to minister in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 ¶ And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate. +14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counseller, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward. +15 To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim. +16 To Shuppim and Hosah __the__ __lot__ __came__ __forth__ westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward. +17 Eastward __were__ six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two __and__ two. +18 At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, __and__ two at Parbar. +19 These __are__ the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari. +20 ¶ And of the Levites, Ahijah __was__ over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. +21 __As__ __concerning__ the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, __even__ of Laadan the Gershonite, __were__ Jehieli. +22 The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, __which__ __were__ over the treasures of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 Of the Amramites, __and__ the Izharites, the Hebronites, __and__ the Uzzielites: +24 And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, __was__ ruler of the treasures. +25 And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son. +26 Which Shelomith and his brethren __were__ over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated. +27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; __and__ whosoever had dedicated __any__ __thing__, __it__ __was__ under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren. +29 ¶ Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons __were__ for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges. +30 __And__ of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, __were__ officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and in the service of the king. +31 Among the Hebronites __was__ Jerijah the chief, __even__ among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead. +32 And his brethren, men of valour, __were__ two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 NOW the children of Israel after their number, __to__ __wit__, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +2 Over the first course for the first month __was__ Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +3 Of the children of Perez __was__ the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month. +4 And over the course of the second month __was__ Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course __was__ Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise __were__ twenty and four thousand. +5 The third captain of the host for the third month __was__ Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +6 This __is__ __that__ Benaiah, __who__ __was__ mighty __among__ the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course __was__ Ammizabad his son. +7 The fourth __captain__ for the fourth month __was__ Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +8 The fifth captain for the fifth month __was__ Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +9 The sixth __captain__ for the sixth month __was__ Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +10 The seventh __captain__ for the seventh month __was__ Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +11 The eighth __captain__ for the eighth month __was__ Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +12 The ninth __captain__ for the ninth month __was__ Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +13 The tenth __captain__ for the tenth month __was__ Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +14 The eleventh __captain__ for the eleventh month __was__ Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +15 The twelfth __captain__ for the twelfth month __was__ Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course __were__ twenty and four thousand. +16 ¶ Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites __was__ Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah: +17 Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok: +18 Of Judah, Elihu, __one__ of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael: +19 Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel: +20 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah: +21 Of the half __tribe__ of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: +22 Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These __were__ the princes of the tribes of Israel. +23 ¶ But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens. +24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David. +25 ¶ And over the king's treasures __was__ Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, __was__ Jehonathan the son of Uzziah: +26 And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground __was__ Ezri the son of Chelub: +27 And over the vineyards __was__ Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars __was__ Zabdi the Shiphmite: +28 And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that __were__ in the low plains __was__ Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil __was__ Joash: +29 And over the herds that fed in Sharon __was__ Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds __that__ __were__ in the valleys __was__ Shaphat the son of Adlai: +30 Over the camels also __was__ Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses __was__ Jehdeiah the Meronothite: +31 And over the flocks __was__ Jaziz the Hagerite. All these __were__ the rulers of the substance which __was__ king David's. +32 Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counseller, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni __was__ with the king's sons: +33 And Ahithophel __was__ the king's counseller: and Hushai the Archite __was__ the king's companion: +34 And after Ahithophel __was__ Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army __was__ Joab. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 AND David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem. +2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: __As__ __for__ __me__, I __had__ in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building: +3 But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou __hast__ __been__ a man of war, and hast shed blood. +4 Howbeit the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah __to__ __be__ the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make __me__ king over all Israel: +5 And of all my sons, (for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ over Israel. +6 And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him __to__ __be__ my son, and I will be his father. +7 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day. +8 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave __it__ for an inheritance for your children after you for ever. +9 ¶ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. +10 Take heed now; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do __it__. +11 ¶ Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat, +12 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things: +13 Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 __He__ __gave__ of gold by weight for __things__ of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; __silver__ __also__ for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service: +15 Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, __both__ for the candlestick, and __also__ for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick. +16 And by weight __he__ __gave__ gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and __likewise__ silver for the tables of silver: +17 Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons __he__ __gave__ __gold__ by weight for every bason; and __likewise__ __silver__ by weight for every bason of silver: +18 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out __their__ __wings__, and covered the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 All __this__, __said__ __David__, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made me understand in writing by __his__ hand upon me, __even__ all the works of this pattern. +20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do __it:__ fear not, nor be dismayed: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, __even__ my God, __will__ __be__ with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, __even__ __they__ __shall__ __be__ __with__ __thee__ for all the service of the house of God: and __there__ __shall__ __be__ with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people __will__ __be__ wholly at thy commandment. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 FURTHERMORE David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, __is__ __yet__ young and tender, and the work __is__ great: for the palace __is__ not for man, but for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God. +2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for __things__ __to__ __be__ __made__ of gold, and the silver for __things__ of silver, and the brass for __things__ of brass, the iron for __things__ of iron, and wood for __things__ of wood; onyx stones, and __stones__ to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. +3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, __which__ I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, +4 __Even__ three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses __withal:__ +5 The gold for __things__ of gold, and the silver for __things__ of silver, and for all manner of work __to__ __be__ __made__ by the hands of artificers. And who __then__ is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +6 ¶ Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly, +7 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. +8 And they with whom __precious__ stones were found gave __them__ to the treasure of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. +9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. +10 ¶ Wherefore David blessed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed __be__ thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. +11 Thine, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __is__ the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all __that__ __is__ in the heaven and in the earth __is__ __thine;__ thine __is__ the kingdom, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and thou art exalted as head above all. +12 Both riches and honour __come__ of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand __is__ power and might; and in thine hand __it__ __is__ to make great, and to give strength unto all. +13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. +14 But who __am__ I, and what __is__ my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things __come__ of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. +15 For we __are__ strangers before thee, and sojourners, as __were__ all our fathers: our days on the earth __are__ as a shadow, and __there__ __is__ none abiding. +16 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name __cometh__ of thine hand, and __is__ all thine own. +17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee. +18 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: +19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all __these__ __things__, and to build the palace, __for__ the which I have made provision. +20 ¶ And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. And all the congregation blessed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the king. +21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and offered burnt offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, on the morrow after that day, __even__ a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, __and__ a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel: +22 And did eat and drink before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed __him__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __to__ __be__ the chief governor, and Zadok __to__ __be__ priest. +23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him. +24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king. +25 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him __such__ royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel. +26 ¶ Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. +27 And the time that he reigned over Israel __was__ forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three __years__ reigned he in Jerusalem. +28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead. +29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they __are__ written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer, +30 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries. +:::SET BOOK 2 Chronicles +:::SET TITLE The Second Book of the Chronicles +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 AND Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God __was__ with him, and magnified him exceedingly. +2 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers. +3 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that __was__ at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had made in the wilderness. +4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to __the__ __place__ __which__ David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. +5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it. +6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which __was__ at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it. +7 ¶ In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee. +8 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead. +9 Now, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. +10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, __that__ __is__ __so__ great? +11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: +12 Wisdom and knowledge __is__ granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that __have__ __been__ before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like. +13 ¶ Then Solomon came __from__ __his__ __journey__ to the high place that __was__ at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel. +14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. +15 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem __as__ __plenteous__ as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that __are__ in the vale for abundance. +16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. +17 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred __shekels__ of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out __horses__ for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and an house for his kingdom. +2 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. +3 ¶ And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, __even__ __so__ __deal__ __with__ __me__. +4 Behold, I build an house to the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, to dedicate __it__ to him, __and__ to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. This __is__ __an__ __ordinance__ for ever to Israel. +5 And the house which I build __is__ great: for great __is__ our God above all gods. +6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who __am__ I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? +7 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that __are__ with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide. +8 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants __shall__ __be__ with thy servants, +9 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build __shall__ __be__ wonderful great. +10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil. +11 ¶ Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them. +12 Huram said moreover, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and an house for his kingdom. +13 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, +14 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father __was__ a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. +15 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants: +16 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem. +17 ¶ And Solomon numbered all the strangers that __were__ in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred. +18 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them __to__ __be__ bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand __to__ __be__ hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THEN Solomon began to build the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. +2 And he began to build in the second __day__ of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. +3 ¶ Now these __are__ __the__ __things__ __wherein__ Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure __was__ threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits. +4 And the porch that __was__ in the front __of__ __the__ __house__, the length __of__ __it__ __was__ according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height __was__ an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. +5 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains. +6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold __was__ gold of Parvaim. +7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls. +8 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof __was__ according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, __amounting__ to six hundred talents. +9 And the weight of the nails __was__ fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. +10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold. +11 ¶ And the wings of the cherubims __were__ twenty cubits long: one wing __of__ __the__ __one__ __cherub__ __was__ five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing __was__ __likewise__ five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. +12 And __one__ wing of the other cherub __was__ five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing __was__ five cubits __also__, joining to the wing of the other cherub. +13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces __were__ inward. +14 ¶ And he made the vail __of__ blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon. +15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that __was__ on the top of each of them __was__ five cubits. +16 And he made chains, __as__ in the oracle, and put __them__ on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put __them__ on the chains. +17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 MOREOVER he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. +2 ¶ Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. +3 And under it __was__ the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen __were__ cast, when it was cast. +4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea __was__ __set__ above upon them, and all their hinder parts __were__ inward. +5 And the thickness of it __was__ an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; __and__ it received and held three thousand baths. +6 ¶ He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea __was__ for the priests to wash in. +7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set __them__ in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. +8 He made also ten tables, and placed __them__ in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold. +9 ¶ Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. +10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south. +11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; +12 __To__ __wit__, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters __which__ __were__ on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which __were__ on the top of the pillars; +13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which __were__ upon the pillars. +14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases; +15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it. +16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of bright brass. +17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah. +18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out. +19 ¶ And Solomon made all the vessels that __were__ __for__ the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread __was__ __set;__ +20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold; +21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, __made__ __he__ __of__ gold, __and__ that perfect gold; +22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, __of__ pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy __place__, and the doors of the house of the temple, __were__ __of__ gold. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 THUS all the work that Solomon made for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was finished: and Solomon brought in __all__ the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God. +2 ¶ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ out of the city of David, which __is__ Zion. +3 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which __was__ in the seventh month. +4 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. +5 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that __were__ in the tabernacle, these did the priests __and__ the Levites bring up. +6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude. +7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy __place__, __even__ under the wings of the cherubims: +8 For the cherubims spread forth __their__ wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. +9 And they drew out the staves __of__ __the__ __ark__, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day. +10 __There__ __was__ nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put __therein__ at Horeb, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made __a__ __covenant__ with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. +11 ¶ And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy __place:__ (for all the priests __that__ __were__ present were sanctified, __and__ did not __then__ wait by course: +12 Also the Levites __which__ __were__ the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, __being__ arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:) +13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers __were__ as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and when they lifted up __their__ voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __saying__, For __he__ __is__ good; for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: that __then__ the house was filled with a cloud, __even__ the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; +14 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had filled the house of God. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 THEN said Solomon, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. +2 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever. +3 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood. +4 And he said, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled __that__ which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying, +5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel: +6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. +7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +8 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart: +9 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name. +10 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ promised, and have built the house for the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +11 And in it have I put the ark, wherein __is__ the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he made with the children of Israel. +12 ¶ And he stood before the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: +13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven, +14 And said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, __there__ __is__ no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and __shewest__ mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts: +15 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled __it__ with thine hand, as __it__ __is__ this day. +16 Now therefore, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me. +17 Now then, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David. +18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built! +19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee: +20 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place. +21 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, __even__ from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive. +22 ¶ If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house; +23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness. +24 ¶ And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house; +25 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers. +26 ¶ When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; __yet__ if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them; +27 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance. +28 ¶ If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness __there__ __be:__ +29 __Then__ what prayer __or__ what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house: +30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:) +31 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers. +32 ¶ Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house; +33 Then hear thou from the heavens, __even__ from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as __doth__ thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name. +34 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name; +35 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. +36 If they sin against thee, (for __there__ __is__ no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before __their__ enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near; +37 Yet __if__ they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly; +38 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and __toward__ the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name: +39 Then hear thou from the heavens, __even__ from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee. +40 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and __let__ thine ears __be__ attent unto the prayer __that__ __is__ __made__ in this place. +41 Now therefore arise, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness. +42 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 NOW when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ filled the house. +2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had filled the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house. +3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __saying__, For __he__ __is__ good; for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +4 ¶ Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. +6 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which David the king had made to praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because his mercy __endureth__ for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood. +7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that __was__ before the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat. +8 ¶ Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt. +9 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. +10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people. +11 Thus Solomon finished the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and in his own house, he prosperously effected. +12 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. +13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; +14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. +15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer __that__ __is__ __made__ in this place. +16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. +17 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments; +18 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man __to__ __be__ ruler in Israel. +19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; +20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it __to__ __be__ a proverb and a byword among all nations. +21 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ done thus unto this land, and unto this house? +22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his own house, +2 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there. +3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it. +4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath. +5 Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; +6 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion. +7 ¶ __As__ __for__ all the people __that__ __were__ left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which __were__ not of Israel, +8 __But__ of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day. +9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they __were__ men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen. +10 And these __were__ the chief of king Solomon's officers, __even__ two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people. +11 ¶ And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because __the__ __places__ __are__ holy, whereunto the ark of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath come. +12 ¶ Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ on the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he had built before the porch, +13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, __even__ in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. +14 ¶ And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded. +15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures. +16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and until it was finished. __So__ the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was perfected. +17 ¶ Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom. +18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought __them__ to king Solomon. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. +2 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not. +3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, +4 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; there was no more spirit in her. +5 And she said to the king, __It__ __was__ a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom: +6 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen __it:__ and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: __for__ thou exceedest the fame that I heard. +7 Happy __are__ thy men, and happy __are__ these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom. +8 Blessed be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, __to__ __be__ king for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice. +9 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon. +10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. +11 And the king made __of__ the algum trees terraces to the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah. +12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside __that__ which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants. +13 ¶ Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; +14 Beside __that__ __which__ chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon. +15 ¶ And king Solomon made two hundred targets __of__ beaten gold: six hundred __shekels__ of beaten gold went to one target. +16 And three hundred shields __made__ __he__ __of__ beaten gold: three hundred __shekels__ of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. +17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold. +18 And __there__ __were__ six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, __which__ __were__ fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays: +19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom. +20 ¶ And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon __were__ __of__ gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon __were__ __of__ pure gold: none __were__ __of__ silver; it was __not__ any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon. +21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. +22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. +23 ¶ And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart. +24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year. +25 ¶ And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. +26 ¶ And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. +27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that __are__ in the low plains in abundance. +28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands. +29 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, __are__ they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat? +30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. +31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king. +2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who __was__ in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard __it__, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. +3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying, +4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee. +5 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed. +6 ¶ And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye __me__ to return answer to this people? +7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever. +8 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him. +9 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us? +10 And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou __it__ somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little __finger__ shall be thicker than my father's loins. +11 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I __will__ __chastise__ __you__ with scorpions. +12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day. +13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, +14 And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I __will__ __chastise__ __you__ with scorpions. +15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. +16 ¶ And when all Israel __saw__ that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and __we__ __have__ none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: __and__ now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents. +17 But __as__ __for__ the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. +18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that __was__ over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to __his__ chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. +19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen __men__, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam. +2 But the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, +3 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying, +4 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and returned from going against Jeroboam. +5 ¶ And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah. +6 He built even Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, +7 And Beth-zur, and Shoco, and Adullam, +8 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph, +9 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah, +10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which __are__ in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities. +11 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine. +12 And in every several city __he__ __put__ shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side. +13 ¶ And the priests and the Levites that __were__ in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts. +14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +15 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made. +16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers. +17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon. +18 ¶ And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, __and__ Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse; +19 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham. +20 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith. +21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.) +22 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, __to__ __be__ ruler among his brethren: for __he__ __thought__ to make him king. +23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and all Israel with him. +2 And it came to pass, __that__ in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +3 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people __were__ without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. +4 And he took the fenced cities which __pertained__ to Judah, and came to Jerusalem. +5 ¶ Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and __to__ the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. +6 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ righteous. +7 And when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; __therefore__ I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. +8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries. +9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made. +10 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed __them__ to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house. +11 And when the king entered into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber. +12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ turned from him, that he would not destroy __him__ altogether: and also in Judah things went well. +13 ¶ So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam __was__ one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name __was__ Naamah an Ammonitess. +14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, __are__ they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And __there__ __were__ wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. +16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 NOW in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah. +2 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also __was__ Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam. +3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, __even__ four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, __being__ mighty men of valour. +4 ¶ And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which __is__ in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel; +5 Ought ye not to know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, __even__ to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? +6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord. +7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them. +8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the hand of the sons of David; and ye __be__ a great multitude, and __there__ __are__ with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods. +9 Have ye not cast out the priests of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of __other__ lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, __the__ __same__ may be a priest of __them__ __that__ __are__ no gods. +10 But as for us, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __are__ the sons of Aaron, and the Levites __wait__ upon __their__ business: +11 And they burn unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also __set__ __they__ __in__ __order__ upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God; but ye have forsaken him. +12 And, behold, God himself __is__ with us for __our__ captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper. +13 ¶ But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment __was__ behind them. +14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle __was__ before and behind: and they cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. +15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. +16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. +17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men. +18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers. +19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof. +20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ struck him, and he died. +21 ¶ But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters. +22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, __are__ written in the story of the prophet Iddo. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 SO Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years. +2 And Asa did __that__ __which__ __was__ good and right in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God: +3 For he took away the altars of the strange __gods__, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: +4 And commanded Judah to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. +5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. +6 ¶ And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had given him rest. +7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about __them__ walls, and towers, gates, and bars, __while__ the land __is__ yet before us; because we have sought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, we have sought __him__, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered. +8 And Asa had an army __of__ __men__ that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these __were__ mighty men of valour. +9 ¶ And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah. +10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. +11 And Asa cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, and said, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __it__ __is__ nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou __art__ our God; let not man prevail against thee. +12 So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled. +13 And Asa and the people that __were__ with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil. +14 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them. +15 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AND the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: +2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. +3 Now for a long season Israel __hath__ __been__ without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. +4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them. +5 And in those times __there__ __was__ no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations __were__ upon all the inhabitants of the countries. +6 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity. +7 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded. +8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that __was__ before the porch of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God __was__ with him. +10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. +11 And they offered unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the same time, of the spoil __which__ they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. +12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; +13 That whosoever would not seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. +14 And they sware unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets. +15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave them rest round about. +16 ¶ And also __concerning__ Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from __being__ queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped __it__, and burnt __it__ at the brook Kidron. +17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. +18 ¶ And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. +19 And there was no __more__ war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 IN the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. +2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, +3 __There__ __is__ a league between me and thee, as __there__ __was__ between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. +4 And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali. +5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard __it__, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease. +6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah. +7 ¶ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand. +8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he delivered them into thine hand. +9 For the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of __them__ whose heart __is__ perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. +10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for __he__ __was__ in a rage with him because of this __thing__. And Asa oppressed __some__ of the people the same time. +11 ¶ And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they __are__ written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. +12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease __was__ exceeding __great:__ yet in his disease he sought not to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but to the physicians. +13 ¶ And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. +14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds __of__ __spices__ prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. +2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. +3 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim; +4 But sought to the __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. +5 Therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance. +6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah. +7 ¶ Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, __even__ to Ben-hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. +8 And with them __he__ __sent__ Levites, __even__ Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. +9 And they taught in Judah, and __had__ the book of the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. +10 ¶ And the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that __were__ round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat. +11 Also __some__ of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats. +12 ¶ And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store. +13 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, __were__ in Jerusalem. +14 And these __are__ the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand. +15 And next to him __was__ Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand. +16 And next him __was__ Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour. +17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand. +18 And next him __was__ Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war. +19 These waited on the king, beside __those__ whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 NOW Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab. +2 And after __certain__ years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that __he__ __had__ with him, and persuaded him to go up __with__ __him__ to Ramoth-gilead. +3 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I __am__ as thou __art__, and my people as thy people; and __we__ __will__ __be__ with thee in the war. +4 ¶ And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to day. +5 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver __it__ into the king's hand. +6 But Jehoshaphat said, __Is__ __there__ not here a prophet of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ besides, that we might inquire of him? +7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, __There__ __is__ yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same __is__ Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. +8 And the king of Israel called for one __of__ __his__ officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla. +9 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in __their__ robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. +10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed. +11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall deliver __it__ into the hand of the king. +12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets __declare__ good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good. +13 And Micaiah said, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak. +14 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand. +15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +16 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, These have no master; let them return __therefore__ every man to his house in peace. +17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee __that__ he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil? +18 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; I saw the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and __on__ his left. +19 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner. +20 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, I will entice him. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Wherewith? +21 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And __the__ __$$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$__ said, Thou shalt entice __him__, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do __even__ so. +22 Now therefore, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken evil against thee. +23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from me to speak unto thee? +24 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself. +25 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; +26 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this __fellow__ in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace. +27 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, __then__ hath not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people. +28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. +29 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle. +30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that __were__ with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel. +31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It __is__ the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ helped him; and God moved them __to__ __depart__ from him. +32 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him. +33 And a __certain__ man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded. +34 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed __himself__ up in __his__ chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem. +2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? therefore __is__ wrath upon thee from before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God. +4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beer-sheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers. +5 ¶ And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, +6 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who __is__ with you in the judgment. +7 Wherefore now let the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be upon you; take heed and do __it:__ for __there__ __is__ no iniquity with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. +8 ¶ Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and __of__ the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem. +9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. +10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and __so__ wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass. +11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest __is__ over you in all matters of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites __shall__ __be__ officers before you. Deal courageously, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be with the good. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 IT came to pass after this also, __that__ the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them __other__ beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. +2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they __be__ in Hazazon-tamar, which __is__ En-gedi. +3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. +4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask __help__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 ¶ And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, before the new court, +6 And said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of our fathers, __art__ not thou God in heaven? and rulest __not__ thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand __is__ __there__ __not__ power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? +7 __Art__ not thou our God, __who__ didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever? +8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying, +9 If, __when__ evil cometh upon us, __as__ the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name __is__ in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help. +10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not; +11 Behold, __I__ __say__, __how__ they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit. +12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes __are__ upon thee. +13 And all Judah stood before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with their little ones, their wives, and their children. +14 ¶ Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the midst of the congregation; +15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle __is__ not yours, but God's. +16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. +17 Ye shall not __need__ to fight in this __battle:__ set yourselves, stand ye __still__, and see the salvation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __will__ __be__ with you. +18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with __his__ face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, worshipping the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel with a loud voice on high. +20 ¶ And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. +21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +22 ¶ And when they began to sing and to praise, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten. +23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy __them:__ and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another. +24 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they __were__ dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped. +25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much. +26 ¶ And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day. +27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had made them to rejoice over their enemies. +28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +29 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of __those__ countries, when they had heard that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ fought against the enemies of Israel. +30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about. +31 ¶ And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: __he__ __was__ thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. +32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. +34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they __are__ written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who __is__ mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel. +35 ¶ And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: +36 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion-geber. +37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 NOW Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. +2 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these __were__ the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel. +3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he __was__ the firstborn. +4 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and __divers__ also of the princes of Israel. +5 ¶ Jehoram __was__ thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. +6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 Howbeit the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever. +8 ¶ In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king. +9 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots. +10 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time __also__ did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of his fathers. +11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah __thereto__. +12 ¶ And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, +13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, __which__ __were__ better than thyself: +14 Behold, with a great plague will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: +15 And thou __shalt__ __have__ great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day. +16 ¶ Moreover the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that __were__ near the Ethiopians: +17 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. +18 ¶ And after all this the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. +19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. +20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 AND the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned. +2 Forty and two years old __was__ Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also __was__ Athaliah the daughter of Omri. +3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly. +4 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellers after the death of his father to his destruction. +5 ¶ He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians smote Joram. +6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick. +7 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab. +8 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them. +9 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he __is__ the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom. +10 ¶ But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah. +11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not. +12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 AND in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him. +2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. +3 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said of the sons of David. +4 This __is__ the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, __shall__ __be__ porters of the doors; +5 And a third part __shall__ __be__ at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people __shall__ __be__ in the courts of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 But let none come into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they __are__ holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever __else__ cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out. +8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go __out__ on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses. +9 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that __had__ __been__ king David's, which __were__ in the house of God. +10 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about. +11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and __gave__ __him__ the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king. +12 ¶ Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason. +14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there. +16 ¶ And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s people. +17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. +18 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to offer the burnt offerings of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as __it__ __is__ written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, __as__ __it__ __was__ __ordained__ by David. +19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that none __which__ __was__ unclean in any thing should enter in. +20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. +21 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 JOASH __was__ seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also __was__ Zibiah of Beer-sheba. +2 And Joash did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all the days of Jehoiada the priest. +3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. +4 ¶ And it came to pass after this, __that__ Joash was minded to repair the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened __it__ not. +6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, __according__ __to__ __the__ __commandment__ of Moses the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness? +7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did they bestow upon Baalim. +8 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the collection __that__ Moses the servant of God __laid__ upon Israel in the wilderness. +10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end. +11 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that __there__ __was__ much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance. +12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it. +14 And when they had finished __it__, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ vessels to minister, and to offer __withal__, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ continually all the days of Jehoiada. +15 ¶ But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old __was__ __he__ when he died. +16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house. +17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them. +18 And they left the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass. +19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear. +20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he hath also forsaken you. +21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ look upon __it__, and require __it__. +23 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of the year, __that__ the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus. +24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. +25 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings. +26 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess. +27 ¶ Now __concerning__ his sons, and the greatness of the burdens __laid__ upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they __are__ written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 AMAZIAH __was__ twenty and five years old __when__ he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. +2 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but not with a perfect heart. +3 ¶ Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. +4 But he slew not their children, but __did__ as __it__ __is__ written in the law in the book of Moses, where the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin. +5 ¶ Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of __their__ fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice __men__, __able__ to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield. +6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver. +7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ not with Israel, __to__ __wit__, __with__ all the children of Ephraim. +8 But if thou wilt go, do __it__, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down. +9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is able to give thee much more than this. +10 Then Amaziah separated them, __to__ __wit__, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger. +11 ¶ And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand. +12 And __other__ ten thousand __left__ alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces. +13 ¶ But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil. +14 ¶ Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up __to__ __be__ his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them. +15 Wherefore the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand? +16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that __the__ __king__ said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel. +17 ¶ Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face. +18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that __was__ in Lebanon sent to the cedar that __was__ in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that __was__ in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle. +19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to __thine__ hurt, that thou shouldest fall, __even__ thou, and Judah with thee? +20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it __came__ of God, that he might deliver them into the hand __of__ __their__ __enemies__, because they sought after the gods of Edom. +21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, __both__ he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which __belongeth__ to Judah. +22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent. +23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits. +24 And __he__ __took__ all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria. +25 ¶ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. +26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, __are__ they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? +27 ¶ Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there. +28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 THEN all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who __was__ sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. +2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. +3 Sixteen years old __was__ Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also __was__ Jecoliah of Jerusalem. +4 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that his father Amaziah did. +5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, God made him to prosper. +6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines. +7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims. +8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad __even__ to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened __himself__ exceedingly. +9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning __of__ __the__ __wall__, and fortified them. +10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen __also__, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry. +11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, __one__ of the king's captains. +12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour __were__ two thousand and six hundred. +13 And under their hand __was__ an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. +14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings __to__ __cast__ stones. +15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. +16 ¶ But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to __his__ destruction: for he transgressed against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, and went into the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to burn incense upon the altar of incense. +17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __that__ __were__ valiant men: +18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, __It__ __appertaineth__ not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither __shall__ __it__ __be__ for thine honour from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God. +19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and __had__ a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from beside the incense altar. +20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he __was__ leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had smitten him. +21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, __being__ a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and Jotham his son __was__ over the king's house, judging the people of the land. +22 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. +23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which __belonged__ to the kings; for they said, He __is__ a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 JOTHAM __was__ twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also __was__ Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok. +2 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And the people did yet corruptly. +3 He built the high gate of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. +4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. +5 ¶ He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third. +6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God. +7 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they __are__ written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. +8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. +9 ¶ And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 AHAZ __was__ twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, like David his father: +2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. +3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had cast out before the children of Israel. +4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. +5 Wherefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought __them__ to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter. +6 ¶ For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, __which__ __were__ all valiant men; because they had forsaken the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers. +7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah __that__ __was__ next to the king. +8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria. +9 But a prophet of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was there, whose name __was__ Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage __that__ reacheth up unto heaven. +10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: __but__ __are__ __there__ not with you, even with you, sins against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God? +11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ upon you. +12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war, +13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __already__, ye intend to add __more__ to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and __there__ __is__ fierce wrath against Israel. +14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation. +15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria. +16 ¶ At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him. +17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives. +18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there. +19 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not. +21 For Ahaz took away a portion __out__ of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and __out__ of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave __it__ unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not. +22 ¶ And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: this __is__ __that__ king Ahaz. +23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, __therefore__ will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. +24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem. +25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of his fathers. +26 ¶ Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they __are__ written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. +27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, __even__ in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 HEZEKIAH began to reign __when__ __he__ __was__ five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. +2 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that David his father had done. +3 ¶ He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and repaired them. +4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, +5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy __place__. +6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and turned __their__ backs. +7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy __place__ unto the God of Israel. +8 Wherefore the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes. +9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives __are__ in captivity for this. +10 Now __it__ __is__ in mine heart to make a covenant with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us. +11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense. +12 ¶ Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah: +13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah: +14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel. +15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to cleanse the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to cleanse __it__, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ into the court of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And the Levites took __it__, to carry __it__ out abroad into the brook Kidron. +17 Now they began on the first __day__ of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: so they sanctified the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. +18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof. +19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they __are__ before the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 ¶ Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer __them__ on the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled __it__ on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar. +23 And they brought forth the he goats __for__ the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them: +24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded __that__ the burnt offering and the sin offering __should__ __be__ __made__ for all Israel. +25 And he set the Levites in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for __so__ __was__ the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by his prophets. +26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. +27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ began __also__ with the trumpets, and with the instruments __ordained__ by David king of Israel. +28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: __and__ all __this__ __continued__ until the burnt offering was finished. +29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped. +30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped. +31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings. +32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, __and__ two hundred lambs: all these __were__ for a burnt offering to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +33 And the consecrated things __were__ six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep. +34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the __other__ priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites __were__ more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. +35 And also the burnt offerings __were__ in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for __every__ burnt offering. So the service of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was set in order. +36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was __done__ suddenly. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 AND Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month. +3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. +4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. +5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done __it__ of a long __time__ __in__ __such__ __sort__ as it was written. +6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. +7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers, __who__ therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see. +8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers __were__, __but__ yield yourselves unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you. +9 For if ye turn again unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, your brethren and your children __shall__ __find__ compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God __is__ gracious and merciful, and will not turn away __his__ face from you, if ye return unto him. +10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. +11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. +12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 ¶ And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. +14 And they arose and took away the altars that __were__ in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast __them__ into the brook Kidron. +15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth __day__ of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, __which__ __they__ __received__ of the hand of the Levites. +17 For __there__ __were__ many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one __that__ __was__ not clean, to sanctify __them__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 For a multitude of the people, __even__ many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ pardon every one +19 __That__ prepareth his heart to seek God, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of his fathers, though __he__ __be__ not __cleansed__ according to the purification of the sanctuary. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people. +21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ day by day, __singing__ with loud instruments unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers. +23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept __other__ seven days with gladness. +24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. +25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. +26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel __there__ __was__ not the like in Jerusalem. +27 ¶ Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came __up__ to his holy dwelling place, __even__ unto heaven. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 NOW when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. +2 ¶ And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 __He__ __appointed__ also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, __to__ __wit__, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as __it__ __is__ written in the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 ¶ And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all __things__ brought they in abundantly. +6 And __concerning__ the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and laid __them__ by heaps. +7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished __them__ in the seventh month. +8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his people Israel. +9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. +10 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since __the__ __people__ began to bring the offerings into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath blessed his people; and that which is left __is__ this great store. +11 ¶ Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and they prepared __them__, +12 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated __things__ faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite __was__ ruler, and Shimei his brother __was__ the next. +13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, __were__ overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God. +14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, __was__ over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the most holy things. +15 And next him __were__ Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in __their__ set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small: +16 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, __even__ unto every one that entereth into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses; +17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses; +18 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness: +19 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, __which__ __were__ in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites. +20 ¶ And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought __that__ __which__ __was__ good and right and truth before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God. +21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did __it__ with all his heart, and prospered. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +1 AFTER these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. +2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, +3 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which __were__ without the city: and they did help him. +4 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? +5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised __it__ up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo __in__ the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance. +6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying, +7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that __is__ with him: for __there__ __be__ more with us than with him: +8 With him __is__ an arm of flesh; but with us __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. +9 ¶ After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he __himself__ __laid__ __siege__ against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that __were__ at Jerusalem, saying, +10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem? +11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? +12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it? +13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of __other__ lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand? +14 Who __was__ __there__ among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? +15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand? +16 And his servants spake yet __more__ against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, and against his servant Hezekiah. +17 He wrote also letters to rail on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of __other__ lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. +18 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that __were__ on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. +19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, __which__ __were__ the work of the hands of man. +20 And for this __cause__ Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. +21 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword. +22 Thus the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all __other__, and guided them on every side. +23 And many brought gifts unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth. +24 ¶ In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign. +25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit __done__ unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. +26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, __both__ he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. +27 ¶ And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels; +28 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. +29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much. +30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. +31 ¶ Howbeit in __the__ __business__ __of__ the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was __done__ in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all __that__ __was__ in his heart. +32 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they __are__ written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, __and__ in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. +33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 MANASSEH __was__ twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: +2 But did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had cast out before the children of Israel. +3 ¶ For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. +4 Also he built altars in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, whereof the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. +5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to provoke him to anger. +7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: +8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. +9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, __and__ to do worse than the heathen, whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had destroyed before the children of Israel. +10 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. +11 ¶ Wherefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. +12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, +13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ he __was__ God. +14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. +15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and in Jerusalem, and cast __them__ out of the city. +16 And he repaired the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, __yet__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God only. +18 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, behold, they __are__ __written__ in the book of the kings of Israel. +19 His prayer also, and __how__ __God__ was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they __are__ written among the sayings of the seers. +20 ¶ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. +21 ¶ Amon __was__ two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem. +22 But he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them; +23 And humbled not himself before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more. +24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house. +25 ¶ But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +1 JOSIAH __was__ eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. +2 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ right in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined __neither__ to the right hand, nor to the left. +3 ¶ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. +4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that __were__ on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust __of__ __them__, and strowed __it__ upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. +5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. +6 And __so__ __did__ __he__ in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. +7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. +8 ¶ Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God. +9 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem. +10 And they put __it__ in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to repair and amend the house: +11 Even to the artificers and builders gave they __it__, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed. +12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them __were__ Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set __it__ forward; and __other__ __of__ the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick. +13 Also __they__ __were__ over the bearers of burdens, and __were__ overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites __there__ __were__ scribes, and officers, and porters. +14 ¶ And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __given__ by Moses. +15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan. +16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do __it__. +17 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen. +18 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king. +19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes. +20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying, +21 Go, inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great __is__ the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to do after all that is written in this book. +22 And Hilkiah, and __they__ that the king __had__ __appointed__, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that __effect__. +23 ¶ And she answered them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me, +24 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, __even__ all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah: +25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched. +26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel __concerning__ the words which thou hast heard; +27 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard __thee__ also, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +28 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again. +29 ¶ Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. +30 And the king went up into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to walk after the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. +32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand __to__ __it__. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. +33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that __pertained__ to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, __even__ to serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God. __And__ all his days they departed not from following the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of their fathers. +:::SET CHAPTER 35 +1 MOREOVER Josiah kept a passover unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth __day__ of the first month. +2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; __it__ __shall__ not __be__ a burden upon __your__ shoulders: serve now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and his people Israel, +4 And prepare __yourselves__ by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. +5 And stand in the holy __place__ according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and __after__ the division of the families of the Levites. +6 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that __they__ may do according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the hand of Moses. +7 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these __were__ of the king's substance. +8 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred __small__ __cattle__, and three hundred oxen. +9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand __small__ __cattle__, and five hundred oxen. +10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment. +11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled __the__ __blood__ from their hands, and the Levites flayed __them__. +12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as __it__ __is__ written in the book of Moses. And so __did__ __they__ with the oxen. +13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the __other__ holy __offerings__ sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided __them__ speedily among all the people. +14 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron __were__ __busied__ in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron. +15 And the singers the sons of Asaph __were__ in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters __waited__ at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them. +16 So all the service of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to the commandment of king Josiah. +17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. +18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept. +20 ¶ After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. +21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? __I__ __come__ not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from __meddling__ __with__ God, who __is__ with me, that he destroy thee not. +22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. +23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. +24 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in __one__ __of__ the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. +25 ¶ And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they __are__ written in the lamentations. +26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to __that__ __which__ __was__ written in the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +27 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they __are__ written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. +:::SET CHAPTER 36 +1 THEN the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. +2 Jehoahaz __was__ twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. +3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. +4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. +5 ¶ Jehoiakim __was__ twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God. +6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. +7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon. +8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they __are__ written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. +9 ¶ Jehoiachin __was__ eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. +11 ¶ Zedekiah __was__ one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. +12 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God, __and__ humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet __speaking__ from the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +14 ¶ Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: +16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ arose against his people, till __there__ __was__ no remedy. +17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave __them__ all into his hand. +18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all __these__ he brought to Babylon. +19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. +20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: +21 To fulfil the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: __for__ as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. +22 ¶ Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __spoken__ by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and __put__ __it__ also in writing, saying, +23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which __is__ in Judah. Who __is__ __there__ among you of all his people? The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God __be__ with him, and let him go up. +:::SET BOOK Ezra +:::SET TITLE Ezra +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and __put__ __it__ also in writing, saying, +2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which __is__ in Judah. +3 Who __is__ __there__ among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which __is__ in Judah, and build the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, (he __is__ the God,) which __is__ in Jerusalem. +4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that __is__ in Jerusalem. +5 ¶ Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all __them__ whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which __is__ in Jerusalem. +6 And all they that __were__ about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all __that__ was willingly offered. +7 ¶ Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods; +8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. +9 And this __is__ the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, +10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second __sort__ four hundred and ten, __and__ other vessels a thousand. +11 All the vessels of gold and of silver __were__ five thousand and four hundred. All __these__ did Sheshbazzar bring up with __them__ __of__ the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 NOW these __are__ the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; +2 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: +3 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two. +4 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. +5 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five. +6 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua __and__ Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve. +7 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. +8 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five. +9 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore. +10 The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two. +11 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three. +12 The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two. +13 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six. +14 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six. +15 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four. +16 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight. +17 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three. +18 The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve. +19 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three. +20 The children of Gibbar, ninety and five. +21 The children of Beth-lehem, an hundred twenty and three. +22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six. +23 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight. +24 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two. +25 The children of Kirjath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three. +26 The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one. +27 The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two. +28 The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three. +29 The children of Nebo, fifty and two. +30 The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six. +31 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. +32 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty. +33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five. +34 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five. +35 The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty. +36 ¶ The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three. +37 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two. +38 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven. +39 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen. +40 ¶ The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four. +41 ¶ The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight. +42 ¶ The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, __in__ all an hundred thirty and nine. +43 ¶ The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth, +44 The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon, +45 The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub, +46 The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan, +47 The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah, +48 The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam, +49 The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai, +50 The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim, +51 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, +52 The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, +53 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah, +54 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. +55 ¶ The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda, +56 The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, +57 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami. +58 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, __were__ three hundred ninety and two. +59 And these __were__ they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, __and__ Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they __were__ of Israel: +60 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two. +61 ¶ And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name: +62 These sought their register __among__ those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. +63 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim. +64 ¶ The whole congregation together __was__ forty and two thousand three hundred __and__ threescore, +65 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom __there__ __were__ seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and __there__ __were__ among them two hundred singing men and singing women. +66 Their horses __were__ seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five; +67 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; __their__ asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty. +68 ¶ And __some__ of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which __is__ at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place: +69 They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments. +70 So the priests, and the Levites, and __some__ of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel __were__ in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. +2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as __it__ __is__ written in the law of Moses the man of God. +3 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear __was__ upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ burnt offerings morning and evening. +4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as __it__ __is__ written, and __offered__ the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required; +5 And afterward __offered__ the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. But the foundation of the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was not __yet__ laid. +7 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia. +8 ¶ Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 Then stood Jeshua __with__ his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, __with__ their sons and their brethren the Levites. +10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. +11 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; because __he__ __is__ good, for his mercy __endureth__ for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because the foundation of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was laid. +12 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, __who__ __were__ ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: +13 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 NOW when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel; +2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye __do;__ and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither. +3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. +4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, +5 And hired counsellers against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. +6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they __unto__ __him__ an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. +7 ¶ And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter __was__ written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue. +8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: +9 Then __wrote__ Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, __and__ the Elamites, +10 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest __that__ __are__ on this side the river, and at such a time. +11 ¶ This __is__ the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, __even__ unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time. +12 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls __thereof__, and joined the foundations. +13 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up __again__, __then__ will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and __so__ thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings. +14 Now because we have maintenance from __the__ __king__'__s__ palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king; +15 That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city __is__ a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed. +16 We certify the king that, if this city be builded __again__, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. +17 ¶ __Then__ sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and __to__ Shimshai the scribe, and __to__ the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and __unto__ the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time. +18 The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me. +19 And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and __that__ rebellion and sedition have been made therein. +20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all __countries__ beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them. +21 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until __another__ commandment shall be given from me. +22 Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings? +23 ¶ Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter __was__ read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. +24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which __is__ at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 THEN the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that __were__ in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, __even__ unto them. +2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which __is__ at Jerusalem: and with them __were__ the prophets of God helping them. +3 ¶ At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall? +4 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building? +5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this __matter__. +6 ¶ The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which __were__ on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king: +7 They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace. +8 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands. +9 Then asked we those elders, __and__ said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls? +10 We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that __were__ the chief of them. +11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up. +12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon. +13 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon __the__ __same__ king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God. +14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that __was__ in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto __one__, whose name __was__ Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor; +15 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that __is__ in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place. +16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, __and__ laid the foundation of the house of God which __is__ in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and __yet__ it is not finished. +17 Now therefore, if __it__ __seem__ good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which __is__ there at Babylon, whether it be __so__, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 THEN Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. +2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that __is__ in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein __was__ a record thus written: +3 In the first year of Cyrus the king __the__ __same__ Cyrus the king made a decree __concerning__ the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, __and__ the breadth thereof threescore cubits; +4 __With__ three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expences be given out of the king's house: +5 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which __is__ at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which __is__ at Jerusalem, __every__ __one__ to his place, and place __them__ in the house of God. +6 Now __therefore__, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar-boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which __are__ beyond the river, be ye far from thence: +7 Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place. +8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, __even__ of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expences be given unto these men, that they be not hindered. +9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which __are__ at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail: +10 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons. +11 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this. +12 And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter __and__ to destroy this house of God which __is__ at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed. +13 ¶ Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily. +14 And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished __it__, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. +15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king. +16 ¶ And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy, +17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. +18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which __is__ at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses. +19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth __day__ of the first month. +20 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them __were__ pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves. +21 And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, did eat, +22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 NOW after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, +2 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, +3 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, +4 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, +5 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest: +6 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he __was__ a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God upon him. +7 And there went up __some__ of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king. +8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which __was__ in the seventh year of the king. +9 For upon the first __day__ of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first __day__ of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. +10 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to do __it__, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. +11 ¶ Now this __is__ the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, __even__ a scribe of the words of the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and of his statutes to Israel. +12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect __peace__, and at such a time. +13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and __of__ his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. +14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellers, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which __is__ in thine hand; +15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellers have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation __is__ in Jerusalem, +16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which __is__ in Jerusalem: +17 That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which __is__ in Jerusalem. +18 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God. +19 The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, __those__ deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem. +20 And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow __it__ out of the king's treasure house. +21 And I, __even__ I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which __are__ beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily, +22 Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing __how__ __much__. +23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? +24 Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them. +25 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that __is__ in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that __are__ beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know __them__ not. +26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether __it__ __be__ unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. +27 ¶ Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of our fathers, which hath put __such__ __a__ __thing__ as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which __is__ in Jerusalem: +28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellers, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God __was__ upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 THESE __are__ now the chief of their fathers, and __this__ __is__ the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king. +2 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush. +3 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty. +4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males. +5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males. +6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males. +7 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males. +8 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males. +9 Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males. +10 And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males. +11 And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males. +12 And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males. +13 And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names __are__ these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males. +14 Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males. +15 ¶ And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi. +16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding. +17 And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, __and__ to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God. +18 And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen; +19 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty; +20 Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name. +21 ¶ Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. +22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God __is__ upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath __is__ against all them that forsake him. +23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us. +24 ¶ Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, +25 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, __even__ the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellers, and his lords, and all Israel __there__ present, had offered: +26 I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, __and__ of gold an hundred talents; +27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold. +28 And I said unto them, Ye __are__ holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; the vessels __are__ holy also; and the silver and the gold __are__ a freewill offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers. +29 Watch ye, and keep __them__, until ye weigh __them__ before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +30 So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring __them__ to Jerusalem unto the house of our God. +31 ¶ Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth __day__ of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way. +32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days. +33 ¶ Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him __was__ Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them __was__ Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites; +34 By number __and__ by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time. +35 __Also__ the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats __for__ a sin offering: all __this__ __was__ a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +36 ¶ And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 NOW when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, __doing__ according to their abominations, __even__ of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. +2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of __those__ lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. +3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied. +4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice. +5 ¶ And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, +6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over __our__ head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. +7 Since the days of our fathers __have__ we __been__ in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, __and__ our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as __it__ __is__ this day. +8 And now for a little space grace hath been __shewed__ from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. +9 For we __were__ bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. +10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, +11 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness. +12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave __it__ for an inheritance to your children for ever. +13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities __deserve__, and hast given us __such__ deliverance as this; +14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed __us__, so that __there__ __should__ __be__ no remnant nor escaping? +15 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, thou __art__ righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as __it__ __is__ this day: behold, we __are__ before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 NOW when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. +2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, __one__ of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. +3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. +4 Arise; for __this__ matter __belongeth__ unto thee: we also __will__ __be__ with thee: be of good courage, and do __it__. +5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware. +6 ¶ Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and __when__ he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away. +7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem; +8 And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away. +9 ¶ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It __was__ the ninth month, on the twentieth __day__ of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of __this__ matter, and for the great rain. +10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel. +11 Now therefore make confession unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives. +12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do. +13 But the people __are__ many, and __it__ __is__ a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither __is__ __this__ a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing. +14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us. +15 ¶ Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this __matter:__ and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them. +16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, __with__ certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by __their__ names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. +17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month. +18 ¶ And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: __namely__, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah. +19 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and __being__ guilty, __they__ __offered__ a ram of the flock for their trespass. +20 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah. +21 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah. +22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah. +23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same __is__ Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. +24 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri. +25 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah. +26 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah. +27 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza. +28 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, __and__ Athlai. +29 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth. +30 And of the sons of Pahath-moab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh. +31 And __of__ the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon, +32 Benjamin, Malluch, __and__ Shemariah. +33 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, __and__ Shimei. +34 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel, +35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh, +36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, +37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau, +38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei, +39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah, +40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, +41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah, +42 Shallum, Amariah, __and__ Joseph. +43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah. +44 All these had taken strange wives: and __some__ of them had wives by whom they had children. +:::SET BOOK Nehemiah +:::SET TITLE The Book of Nehemiah +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, +2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and __certain__ men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. +3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province __are__ in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also __is__ broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. +4 ¶ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned __certain__ days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, +5 And said, I beseech thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: +6 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned. +7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. +8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, __If__ ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: +9 But __if__ ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, __yet__ will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there. +10 Now these __are__ thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand. +11 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, __that__ wine __was__ before him: and I took up the wine, and gave __it__ unto the king. Now I had not been __beforetime__ sad in his presence. +2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why __is__ thy countenance sad, seeing thou __art__ not sick? this __is__ nothing __else__ but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, +3 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, __lieth__ waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? +4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven. +5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it. +6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. +7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah; +8 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which __appertained__ to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me. +9 ¶ Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. +10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard __of__ __it__, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. +11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. +12 ¶ And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I __any__ man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither __was__ __there__ __any__ beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon. +13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. +14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but __there__ __was__ no place for the beast __that__ __was__ under me to pass. +15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and __so__ returned. +16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told __it__ to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work. +17 ¶ Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we __are__ in, how Jerusalem __lieth__ waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach. +18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for __this__ good __work__. +19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard __it__, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What __is__ this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king? +20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THEN Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel. +2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri. +3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who __also__ laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. +4 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana. +5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord. +6 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. +7 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river. +8 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of __one__ __of__ the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall. +9 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem. +10 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah. +11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces. +12 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters. +13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate. +14 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth-haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof. +15 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David. +16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto __the__ __place__ over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty. +17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part. +18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah. +19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning __of__ __the__ __wall__. +20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning __of__ __the__ __wall__ unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest. +21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib. +22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain. +23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house. +24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning __of__ __the__ __wall__, even unto the corner. +25 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning __of__ __the__ __wall__, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that __was__ by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh. +26 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto __the__ __place__ over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out. +27 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel. +28 From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house. +29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate. +30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber. +31 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner. +32 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 BUT it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. +2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? +3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite __was__ by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. +4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: +5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked __thee__ to anger before the builders. +6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work. +7 ¶ But it came to pass, __that__ when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, __and__ that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, +8 And conspired all of them together to come __and__ to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. +9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. +10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and __there__ __is__ much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall. +11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease. +12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us __they__ __will__ __be__ __upon__ __you__. +13 ¶ Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, __and__ on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows. +14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, __which__ __is__ great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses. +15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work. +16 And it came to pass from that time forth, __that__ the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers __were__ behind all the house of Judah. +17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, __every__ __one__ with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other __hand__ held a weapon. +18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and __so__ builded. And he that sounded the trumpet __was__ by me. +19 ¶ And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work __is__ great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another. +20 In what place __therefore__ ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us. +21 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. +22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day. +23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, __saving__ __that__ every one put them off for washing. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. +2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, __are__ many: therefore we take up corn __for__ __them__, that we may eat, and live. +3 __Some__ also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. +4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, __and__ __that__ __upon__ our lands and vineyards. +5 Yet now our flesh __is__ as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and __some__ of our daughters are brought unto bondage __already:__ neither __is__ __it__ in our power __to__ __redeem__ __them;__ for other men have our lands and vineyards. +6 ¶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. +7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them. +8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing __to__ __answer__. +9 Also I said, It __is__ not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? +10 I likewise, __and__ my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. +11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth __part__ of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. +12 Then said they, We will restore __them__, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise. +13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And the people did according to this promise. +14 ¶ Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, __that__ __is__, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. +15 But the former governors that __had__ __been__ before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God. +16 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants __were__ gathered thither unto the work. +17 Moreover __there__ __were__ at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that __are__ about us. +18 Now __that__ which was prepared __for__ __me__ daily __was__ one ox __and__ six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people. +19 Think upon me, my God, for good, __according__ to all that I have done for this people. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 NOW it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and __that__ there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) +2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in __some__ __one__ __of__ the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. +3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I __am__ doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you? +4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner. +5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand; +6 Wherein __was__ written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith __it__, __that__ thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words. +7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, __There__ __is__ a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together. +8 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. +9 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, __O__ __God__, strengthen my hands. +10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who __was__ shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee. +11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who __is__ __there__, that, __being__ as I __am__, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. +12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. +13 Therefore __was__ he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and __that__ they might have __matter__ for an evil report, that they might reproach me. +14 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear. +15 ¶ So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth __day__ of __the__ __month__ Elul, in fifty and two days. +16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard __thereof__, and all the heathen that __were__ about us saw __these__ __things__, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God. +17 ¶ Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and __the__ __letters__ of Tobiah came unto them. +18 For __there__ __were__ many in Judah sworn unto him, because he __was__ the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah. +19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. __And__ Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 NOW it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, +2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he __was__ a faithful man, and feared God above many. +3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar __them:__ and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one __to__ __be__ over against his house. +4 Now the city __was__ large and great: but the people __were__ few therein, and the houses __were__ not builded. +5 ¶ And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein, +6 These __are__ the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city; +7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, __I__ __say__, of the men of the people of Israel __was__ __this;__ +8 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two. +9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two. +10 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two. +11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred __and__ eighteen. +12 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. +13 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five. +14 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore. +15 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight. +16 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight. +17 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two. +18 The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven. +19 The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven. +20 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five. +21 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight. +22 The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight. +23 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four. +24 The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve. +25 The children of Gibeon, ninety and five. +26 The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight. +27 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight. +28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty and two. +29 The men of Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three. +30 The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one. +31 The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two. +32 The men of Beth-el and Ai, an hundred twenty and three. +33 The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two. +34 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four. +35 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty. +36 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five. +37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one. +38 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty. +39 ¶ The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three. +40 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two. +41 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven. +42 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen. +43 ¶ The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, __and__ of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four. +44 ¶ The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight. +45 ¶ The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight. +46 ¶ The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth, +47 The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon, +48 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai, +49 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, +50 The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, +51 The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah, +52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim, +53 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur, +54 The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha, +55 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah, +56 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha. +57 ¶ The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida, +58 The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel, +59 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon. +60 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, __were__ three hundred ninety and two. +61 And these __were__ they which went up __also__ from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they __were__ of Israel. +62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two. +63 ¶ And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took __one__ of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name. +64 These sought their register __among__ those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood. +65 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood __up__ a priest with Urim and Thummim. +66 ¶ The whole congregation together __was__ forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore, +67 Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom __there__ __were__ seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women. +68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five: +69 __Their__ camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses. +70 ¶ And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments. +71 And __some__ of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver. +72 And __that__ which the rest of the people gave __was__ twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments. +73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and __some__ of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel __were__ in their cities. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that __was__ before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded to Israel. +2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. +3 And he read therein before the street that __was__ before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people __were__ __attentive__ unto the book of the law. +4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, __and__ Meshullam. +5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: +6 And Ezra blessed the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with __their__ faces to the ground. +7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people __stood__ in their place. +8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused __them__ to understand the reading. +9 ¶ And Nehemiah, which __is__ the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day __is__ holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. +10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for __this__ day __is__ holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is your strength. +11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day __is__ holy; neither be ye grieved. +12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them. +13 ¶ And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law. +14 And they found written in the law which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: +15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as __it__ __is__ written. +16 ¶ So the people went forth, and brought __them__, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim. +17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness. +18 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day __was__ a solemn assembly, according unto the manner. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 NOW in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. +2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. +3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God __one__ fourth part of the day; and __another__ fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God. +4 ¶ Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, __and__ Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God. +5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, __and__ Pethahiah, said, Stand up __and__ bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. +6 Thou, __even__ thou, __art__ $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all __things__ that __are__ therein, the seas, and all that __is__ therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. +7 Thou __art__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; +8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give __it__, __I__ __say__, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou __art__ righteous: +9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; +10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as __it__ __is__ this day. +11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. +12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go. +13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: +14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: +15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them. +16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, +17 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou __art__ a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. +18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This __is__ thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations; +19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go. +20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. +21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, __so__ __that__ they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. +22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan. +23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess __it__. +24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would. +25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. +26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. +27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest __them__ from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies. +28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest __them__ from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies; +29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. +30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. +31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou __art__ a gracious and merciful God. +32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. +33 Howbeit thou __art__ just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly: +34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them. +35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works. +36 Behold, we __are__ servants this day, and __for__ the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we __are__ servants in it: +37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we __are__ in great distress. +38 And because of all this we make a sure __covenant__, and write __it;__ and our princes, Levites, __and__ priests, seal __unto__ __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 NOW those that sealed __were__, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, +2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, +3 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah, +4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, +5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, +6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, +7 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, +8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these __were__ the priests. +9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; +10 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, +11 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah, +12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, +13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu. +14 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani, +15 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, +16 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, +17 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur, +18 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai, +19 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai, +20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, +21 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua, +22 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, +23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub, +24 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek, +25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, +26 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, +27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah. +28 ¶ And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; +29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes; +30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: +31 And __if__ the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, __that__ we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and __that__ we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. +32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; +33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy __things__, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and __for__ all the work of the house of our God. +34 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring __it__ into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, as __it__ __is__ written in the law: +35 And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +36 Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as __it__ __is__ written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God: +37 And __that__ we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. +38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house. +39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where __are__ the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts __to__ __dwell__ in __other__ cities. +2 And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem. +3 ¶ Now these __are__ the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, __to__ __wit__, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants. +4 And at Jerusalem dwelt __certain__ of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez; +5 And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni. +6 All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem __were__ four hundred threescore and eight valiant men. +7 And these __are__ the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah. +8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight. +9 And Joel the son of Zichri __was__ their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah __was__ second over the city. +10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin. +11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, __was__ the ruler of the house of God. +12 And their brethren that did the work of the house __were__ eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah, +13 And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer, +14 And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer __was__ Zabdiel, the son of __one__ __of__ the great men. +15 Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; +16 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, __had__ the oversight of the outward business of the house of God. +17 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, __was__ the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun. +18 All the Levites in the holy city __were__ two hundred fourscore and four. +19 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, __were__ an hundred seventy and two. +20 ¶ And the residue of Israel, of the priests, __and__ the Levites, __were__ in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance. +21 But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa __were__ over the Nethinims. +22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem __was__ Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers __were__ over the business of the house of God. +23 For __it__ __was__ the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day. +24 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, __was__ at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people. +25 And for the villages, with their fields, __some__ of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjath-arba, and __in__ the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and __in__ the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and __in__ the villages thereof, +26 And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Beth-phelet, +27 And at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba, and __in__ the villages thereof, +28 And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof, +29 And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth, +30 Zanoah, Adullam, and __in__ their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and __in__ the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom. +31 The children also of Benjamin from Geba __dwelt__ at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and __in__ their villages, +32 __And__ at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, +33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, +34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, +35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen. +36 And of the Levites __were__ divisions __in__ Judah, __and__ in Benjamin. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 NOW these __are__ the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, +2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, +3 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, +4 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah, +5 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, +6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah, +7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These __were__ the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua. +8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, __and__ Mattaniah, __which__ __was__ over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren. +9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, __were__ over against them in the watches. +10 ¶ And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada, +11 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua. +12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; +13 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; +14 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; +15 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; +16 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; +17 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai; +18 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; +19 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; +20 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; +21 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel. +22 ¶ The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, __were__ recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian. +23 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, __were__ written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib. +24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise __and__ to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward. +25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, __were__ porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates. +26 These __were__ in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe. +27 ¶ And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, __with__ cymbals, psalteries, and with harps. +28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi; +29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem. +30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall. +31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great __companies__ __of__ __them__ __that__ __gave__ thanks, __whereof__ __one__ went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate: +32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah, +33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam, +34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, +35 And __certain__ of the priests' sons with trumpets; __namely__, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph: +36 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them. +37 And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward. +38 And the other __company__ __of__ __them__ __that__ __gave__ thanks went over against __them__, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall; +39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate. +40 So stood the two __companies__ __of__ __them__ __that__ __gave__ thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me: +41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, __and__ Hananiah, with trumpets; +42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah __their__ overseer. +43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off. +44 ¶ And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited. +45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, __and__ of Solomon his son. +46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old __there__ __were__ chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God. +47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified __holy__ __things__ unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified __them__ unto the children of Aaron. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 ON that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; +2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing. +3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude. +4 ¶ And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, __was__ allied unto Tobiah: +5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded __to__ __be__ __given__ to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests. +6 But in all this __time__ was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king: +7 And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God. +8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber. +9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense. +10 ¶ And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given __them:__ for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field. +11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. +12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries. +13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them __was__ Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office __was__ to distribute unto their brethren. +14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof. +15 ¶ In those days saw I in Judah __some__ treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all __manner__ __of__ burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified __against__ __them__ in the day wherein they sold victuals. +16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. +17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing __is__ this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? +18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath. +19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and __some__ of my servants set I at the gates, __that__ there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day. +20 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice. +21 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do __so__ again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no __more__ on the sabbath. +22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and __that__ they should come __and__ keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, __concerning__ this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy. +23 ¶ In those days also saw I Jews __that__ had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, __and__ of Moab: +24 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. +25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, __saying__, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. +26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. +27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? +28 And __one__ of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, __was__ son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me. +29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. +30 Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business; +31 And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good. +:::SET BOOK Esther +:::SET TITLE The Book of Esther +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this __is__ Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, __over__ an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) +2 __That__ in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which __was__ in Shushan the palace, +3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, __being__ before him: +4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, __even__ an hundred and fourscore days. +5 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; +6 __Where__ __were__ white, green, and blue, __hangings__, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds __were__ __of__ gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble. +7 And they gave __them__ drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king. +8 And the drinking __was__ according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure. +9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women __in__ the royal house which __belonged__ to king Ahasuerus. +10 ¶ On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, +11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she __was__ fair to look on. +12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by __his__ chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him. +13 ¶ Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so __was__ the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment: +14 And the next unto him __was__ Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, __and__ Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, __and__ which sat the first in the kingdom;) +15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? +16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that __are__ in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus. +17 For __this__ deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not. +18 __Likewise__ shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus __shall__ __there__ __arise__ too much contempt and wrath. +19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she. +20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small. +21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan: +22 For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that __it__ should be published according to the language of every people. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AFTER these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. +2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: +3 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given __them:__ +4 And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so. +5 ¶ __Now__ in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name __was__ Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; +6 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away. +7 And he brought up Hadassah, that __is__, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid __was__ fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter. +8 ¶ So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. +9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, __which__ __were__ meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best __place__ of the house of the women. +10 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew __it__. +11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her. +12 ¶ Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, __to__ __wit__, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with __other__ things for the purifying of the women;) +13 Then thus came __every__ maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house. +14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name. +15 ¶ Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her. +16 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which __is__ the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. +17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti. +18 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, __even__ Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king. +19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate. +20 Esther had not __yet__ shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him. +21 ¶ In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. +22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told __it__ unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king __thereof__ in Mordecai's name. +23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AFTER these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that __were__ with him. +2 And all the king's servants, that __were__ in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did __him__ reverence. +3 Then the king's servants, which __were__ in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment? +4 Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he __was__ a Jew. +5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. +6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that __were__ throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, __even__ the people of Mordecai. +7 ¶ In the first month, that __is__, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that __is__, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, __to__ the twelfth __month__, that __is__, the month Adar. +8 ¶ And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws __are__ diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it __is__ not for the king's profit to suffer them. +9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring __it__ into the king's treasuries. +10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy. +11 And the king said unto Haman, The silver __is__ given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee. +12 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that __were__ over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and __to__ every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring. +13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, __even__ upon the thirteenth __day__ of the twelfth month, which __is__ the month Adar, and __to__ __take__ the spoil of them for a prey. +14 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day. +15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 WHEN Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; +2 And came even before the king's gate: for none __might__ enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. +3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, __there__ __was__ great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. +4 ¶ So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told __it__ her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received __it__ not. +5 Then called Esther for Hatach, __one__ of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it __was__, and why it __was__. +6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which __was__ before the king's gate. +7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. +8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew __it__ unto Esther, and to declare __it__ unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people. +9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. +10 ¶ Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai; +11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, __there__ __is__ one law of his to put __him__ to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days. +12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words. +13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. +14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, __then__ shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for __such__ a time as this? +15 ¶ Then Esther bade __them__ return Mordecai __this__ __answer__, +16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which __is__ not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. +17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 NOW it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on __her__ royal __apparel__, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. +2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, __that__ she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that __was__ in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre. +3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what __is__ thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom. +4 And Esther answered, If __it__ __seem__ good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him. +5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. +6 ¶ And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What __is__ thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what __is__ thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed. +7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request __is;__ +8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said. +9 ¶ Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. +10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife. +11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all __the__ __things__ wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. +12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king. +13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. +14 ¶ Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 ON that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. +2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. +3 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. +4 ¶ And the king said, Who __is__ in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. +5 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. +6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself? +7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, +8 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king __useth__ to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: +9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man __withal__ whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour. +10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, __and__ take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken. +11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour. +12 ¶ And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered. +13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every __thing__ that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai __be__ of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him. +14 And while they __were__ yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 SO the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. +2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What __is__ thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what __is__ thy request? and it shall be performed, __even__ to the half of the kingdom. +3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: +4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. +5 ¶ Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? +6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy __is__ this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. +7 ¶ And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath __went__ into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. +8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther __was__. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. +9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon. +10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 ON that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he __was__ unto her. +2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. +3 ¶ And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews. +4 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king, +5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing __seem__ right before the king, and I __be__ pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which __are__ in all the king's provinces: +6 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred? +7 ¶ Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews. +8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal __it__ with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse. +9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that __is__, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth __day__ thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which __are__ from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language. +10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed __it__ with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, __and__ riders on mules, camels, __and__ young dromedaries: +11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which __were__ in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, __both__ little ones and women, and __to__ __take__ the spoil of them for a prey, +12 Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, __namely__, upon the thirteenth __day__ of the twelfth month, which __is__ the month Adar. +13 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province __was__ published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. +14 __So__ the posts that rode upon mules __and__ camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace. +15 ¶ And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad. +16 The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour. +17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 NOW in the twelfth month, that __is__, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) +2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people. +3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them. +4 For Mordecai __was__ great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater. +5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them. +6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. +7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, +8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, +9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, +10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand. +11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king. +12 ¶ And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what __is__ thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what __is__ thy request further? and it shall be done. +13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which __are__ in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows. +14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons. +15 For the Jews that __were__ in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand. +16 But the other Jews that __were__ in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey, +17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. +18 But the Jews that __were__ at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth __day__ thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth __day__ of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. +19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar __a__ __day__ __of__ gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another. +20 ¶ And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that __were__ in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, __both__ nigh and far, +21 To stablish __this__ among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, +22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. +23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; +24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that __is__, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; +25 But when __Esther__ came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. +26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and __of__ __that__ which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them, +27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their __appointed__ time every year; +28 And __that__ these days __should__ __be__ remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and __that__ these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed. +29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim. +30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, __with__ words of peace and truth, +31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times __appointed__, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry. +32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and __upon__ the isles of the sea. +2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, __are__ they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? +3 For Mordecai the Jew __was__ next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed. +:::SET BOOK Job +:::SET TITLE The Book of Job +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name __was__ Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. +2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. +3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. +4 And his sons went and feasted __in__ __their__ houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. +5 And it was so, when the days of __their__ feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings __according__ to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. +6 ¶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and Satan came also among them. +7 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. +8 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that __there__ __is__ none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? +9 Then Satan answered the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? +10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. +11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. +12 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath __is__ in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 ¶ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters __were__ eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: +14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: +15 And the Sabeans fell __upon__ __them__, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. +16 While he __was__ yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. +17 While he __was__ yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. +18 While he __was__ yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters __were__ eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: +19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. +20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, +21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath taken away; blessed be the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AGAIN there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. +3 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that __there__ __is__ none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. +4 And Satan answered the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. +5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. +6 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Satan, Behold, he __is__ in thine hand; but save his life. +7 ¶ So went Satan forth from the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. +8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. +9 ¶ Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. +10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. +11 ¶ Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. +12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. +13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that __his__ grief was very great. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AFTER this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. +2 And Job spake, and said, +3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night __in__ __which__ it was said, There is a man child conceived. +4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. +5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. +6 __As__ __for__ that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. +7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. +8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. +9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but __have__ none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: +10 Because it shut not up the doors of my __mother__'__s__ womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. +11 Why died I not from the womb? __why__ did I __not__ give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? +12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? +13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, +14 With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; +15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: +16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants __which__ never saw light. +17 There the wicked cease __from__ troubling; and there the weary be at rest. +18 __There__ the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. +19 The small and great are there; and the servant __is__ free from his master. +20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter __in__ soul; +21 Which long for death, but it __cometh__ not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; +22 Which rejoice exceedingly, __and__ are glad, when they can find the grave? +23 __Why__ __is__ __light__ __given__ to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? +24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. +25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. +26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 THEN Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, +2 __If__ we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? +3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. +4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. +5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. +6 __Is__ not __this__ thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? +7 Remember, I pray thee, who __ever__ perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? +8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. +9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. +10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. +11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. +12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. +13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, +14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. +15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: +16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image __was__ before mine eyes, __there__ __was__ silence, and I heard a voice, __saying__, +17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? +18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: +19 How much less __in__ them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation __is__ in the dust, __which__ are crushed before the moth? +20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding __it__. +21 Doth not their excellency __which__ __is__ in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 CALL now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? +2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. +3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. +4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither __is__ __there__ any to deliver __them__. +5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. +6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; +7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. +8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: +9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: +10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: +11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. +12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform __their__ enterprise. +13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. +14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. +15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. +16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. +17 Behold, happy __is__ the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: +18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. +19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. +20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. +21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. +22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. +23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. +24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle __shall__ __be__ in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. +25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed __shall__ __be__ great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. +26 Thou shalt come to __thy__ grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. +27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it __is;__ hear it, and know thou __it__ for thy good. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 BUT Job answered and said, +2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! +3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. +4 For the arrows of the Almighty __are__ within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. +5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? +6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there __any__ taste in the white of an egg? +7 The things __that__ my soul refused to touch __are__ as my sorrowful meat. +8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant __me__ the thing that I long for! +9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! +10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. +11 What __is__ my strength, that I should hope? and what __is__ mine end, that I should prolong my life? +12 __Is__ my strength the strength of stones? or __is__ my flesh of brass? +13 __Is__ not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? +14 To him that is afflicted pity __should__ __be__ __shewed__ from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. +15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, __and__ as the stream of brooks they pass away; +16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, __and__ wherein the snow is hid: +17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. +18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish. +19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. +20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed. +21 For now ye are nothing; ye see __my__ casting down, and are afraid. +22 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance? +23 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? +24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. +25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? +26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, __which__ __are__ as wind? +27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig __a__ __pit__ for your friend. +28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for __it__ __is__ evident unto you if I lie. +29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness __is__ in it. +30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 __IS__ __there__ not an appointed time to man upon earth? __are__ __not__ his days also like the days of an hireling? +2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for __the__ __reward__ __of__ his work: +3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. +4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. +5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. +6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. +7 O remember that my life __is__ wind: mine eye shall no more see good. +8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no __more:__ thine eyes __are__ upon me, and I __am__ not. +9 __As__ the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no __more__. +10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. +11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. +12 __Am__ I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? +13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; +14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: +15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, __and__ death rather than my life. +16 I loathe __it;__ I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days __are__ vanity. +17 What __is__ man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? +18 And __that__ thou shouldest visit him every morning, __and__ try him every moment? +19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? +20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? +21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I __shall__ not __be__. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, +2 How long wilt thou speak these __things?__ and __how__ __long__ __shall__ the words of thy mouth __be__ __like__ a strong wind? +3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? +4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; +5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; +6 If thou __wert__ pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. +7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. +8 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: +9 (For we __are__ __but__ __of__ yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth __are__ a shadow:) +10 Shall not they teach thee, __and__ tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? +11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? +12 Whilst it __is__ yet in his greenness, __and__ not cut down, it withereth before any __other__ herb. +13 So __are__ the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: +14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust __shall__ __be__ a spider's web. +15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure. +16 He __is__ green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. +17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, __and__ seeth the place of stones. +18 If he destroy him from his place, then __it__ shall deny him, __saying__, I have not seen thee. +19 Behold, this __is__ the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. +20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect __man__, neither will he help the evil doers: +21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. +22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 THEN Job answered and said, +2 I know __it__ __is__ so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? +3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. +4 __He__ __is__ wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened __himself__ against him, and hath prospered? +5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. +6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. +7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars. +8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. +9 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. +10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number. +11 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see __him__ not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not. +12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? +13 __If__ God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. +14 How much less shall I answer him, __and__ choose out my words __to__ __reason__ with him? +15 Whom, though I were righteous, __yet__ would I not answer, __but__ I would make supplication to my judge. +16 If I had called, and he had answered me; __yet__ would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. +17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. +18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. +19 If __I__ __speak__ of strength, lo, __he__ __is__ strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time __to__ __plead?__ +20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: __if__ __I__ __say__, I __am__ perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. +21 __Though__ I __were__ perfect, __yet__ would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. +22 This __is__ one __thing__, therefore I said __it__, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. +23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. +24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, __and__ who __is__ he? +25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. +26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle __that__ hasteth to the prey. +27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort __myself:__ +28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. +29 __If__ I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? +30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; +31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. +32 For __he__ __is__ not a man, as I __am__, __that__ I should answer him, __and__ we should come together in judgment. +33 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, __that__ might lay his hand upon us both. +34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: +35 __Then__ would I speak, and not fear him; but __it__ __is__ not so with me. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 MY soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. +2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. +3 __Is__ __it__ good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? +4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? +5 __Are__ thy days as the days of man? __are__ thy years as man's days, +6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? +7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and __there__ __is__ none that can deliver out of thine hand. +8 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. +9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? +10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? +11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. +12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. +13 And these __things__ hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this __is__ with thee. +14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. +15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and __if__ I be righteous, __yet__ will I not lift up my head. __I__ __am__ full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; +16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. +17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war __are__ against me. +18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! +19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. +20 __Are__ not my days few? cease __then__, __and__ let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, +21 Before I go __whence__ I shall not return, __even__ to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; +22 A land of darkness, as darkness __itself;__ __and__ of the shadow of death, without any order, and __where__ the light __is__ as darkness. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 THEN answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, +2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? +3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? +4 For thou hast said, My doctrine __is__ pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. +5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; +6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that __they__ __are__ double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee __less__ than thine iniquity __deserveth__. +7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? +8 __It__ __is__ as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? +9 The measure thereof __is__ longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. +10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? +11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider __it?__ +12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born __like__ a wild ass's colt. +13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; +14 If iniquity __be__ in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. +15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: +16 Because thou shalt forget __thy__ misery, __and__ remember __it__ as waters __that__ pass away: +17 And __thine__ age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. +18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig __about__ __thee__, __and__ thou shalt take thy rest in safety. +19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make __thee__ afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee. +20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope __shall__ __be__ __as__ the giving up of the ghost. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND Job answered and said, +2 No doubt but ye __are__ the people, and wisdom shall die with you. +3 But I have understanding as well as you; I __am__ not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? +4 I am __as__ one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright __man__ __is__ laughed to scorn. +5 He that is ready to slip with __his__ feet __is__ __as__ a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. +6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth __abundantly__. +7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: +8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. +9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath wrought this? +10 In whose hand __is__ the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. +11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? +12 With the ancient __is__ wisdom; and in length of days understanding. +13 With him __is__ wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. +14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. +15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. +16 With him __is__ strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver __are__ his. +17 He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. +18 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. +19 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty. +20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. +21 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty. +22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. +23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them __again__. +24 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness __where__ __there__ __is__ no way. +25 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like __a__ drunken __man__. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 LO, mine eye hath seen all __this__, mine ear hath heard and understood it. +2 What ye know, __the__ __same__ do I know also: I __am__ not inferior unto you. +3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. +4 But ye __are__ forgers of lies, ye __are__ all physicians of no value. +5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. +6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. +7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? +8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? +9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye __so__ mock him? +10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. +11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? +12 Your remembrances __are__ like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. +13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what __will__. +14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? +15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. +16 He also __shall__ __be__ my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. +17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. +18 Behold now, I have ordered __my__ cause; I know that I shall be justified. +19 Who __is__ he __that__ will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. +20 Only do not two __things__ unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. +21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. +22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. +23 How many __are__ mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. +24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? +25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? +26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. +27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. +28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 MAN __that__ __is__ born of a woman __is__ of few days, and full of trouble. +2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. +3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? +4 Who can bring a clean __thing__ out of an unclean? not one. +5 Seeing his days __are__ determined, the number of his months __are__ with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; +6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. +7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. +8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; +9 __Yet__ through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. +10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where __is__ he? +11 __As__ the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: +12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens __be__ no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. +13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! +14 If a man die, shall he live __again?__ all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. +15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands. +16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? +17 My transgression __is__ sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. +18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. +19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow __out__ of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. +20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. +21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth __it__ not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth __it__ not of them. +22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 THEN answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, +2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? +3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? +4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. +5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. +6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. +7 __Art__ thou the first man __that__ was born? or wast thou made before the hills? +8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? +9 What knowest thou, that we know not? __what__ understandest thou, which __is__ not in us? +10 With us __are__ both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. +11 __Are__ the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? +12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, +13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest __such__ words go out of thy mouth? +14 What __is__ man, that he should be clean? and __he__ __which__ __is__ born of a woman, that he should be righteous? +15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. +16 How much more abominable and filthy __is__ man, which drinketh iniquity like water? +17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that __which__ I have seen I will declare; +18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid __it:__ +19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. +20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all __his__ days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. +21 A dreadful sound __is__ in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. +22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. +23 He wandereth abroad for bread, __saying__, Where __is__ __it?__ he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. +24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. +25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. +26 He runneth upon him, __even__ on __his__ neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: +27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on __his__ flanks. +28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, __and__ in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. +29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. +30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. +31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. +32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. +33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. +34 For the congregation of hypocrites __shall__ __be__ desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. +35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 THEN Job answered and said, +2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters __are__ ye all. +3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? +4 I also could speak as ye __do:__ if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. +5 __But__ I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage __your__ __grief__. +6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and __though__ I forbear, what am I eased? +7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. +8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, __which__ is a witness __against__ __me:__ and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. +9 He teareth __me__ in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. +10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. +11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. +12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken __me__ by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. +13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. +14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. +15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. +16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids __is__ the shadow of death; +17 Not for __any__ injustice in mine hands: also my prayer __is__ pure. +18 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place. +19 Also now, behold, my witness __is__ in heaven, and my record __is__ on high. +20 My friends scorn me: __but__ mine eye poureth out __tears__ unto God. +21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man __pleadeth__ for his neighbour! +22 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way __whence__ I shall not return. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 MY breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves __are__ __ready__ for me. +2 __Are__ __there__ not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? +3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who __is__ he __that__ will strike hands with me? +4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt __them__. +5 He that speaketh flattery to __his__ friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. +6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. +7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members __are__ as a shadow. +8 Upright __men__ shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. +9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. +10 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find __one__ wise __man__ among you. +11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, __even__ the thoughts of my heart. +12 They change the night into day: the light __is__ short because of darkness. +13 If I wait, the grave __is__ mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. +14 I have said to corruption, Thou __art__ my father: to the worm, __Thou__ __art__ my mother, and my sister. +15 And where __is__ now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? +16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when __our__ rest together __is__ in the dust. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, +2 How long __will__ __it__ __be__ __ere__ ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. +3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, __and__ reputed vile in your sight? +4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? +5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. +6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. +7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. +8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. +9 The gin shall take __him__ by the heel, __and__ the robber shall prevail against him. +10 The snare __is__ laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. +11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. +12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction __shall__ __be__ ready at his side. +13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: __even__ the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. +14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. +15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because __it__ __is__ none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. +16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. +17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. +18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. +19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. +20 They that come after __him__ shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. +21 Surely such __are__ the dwellings of the wicked, and this __is__ the place __of__ __him__ __that__ knoweth not God. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 THEN Job answered and said, +2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? +3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed __that__ ye make yourselves strange to me. +4 And be it indeed __that__ I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. +5 If indeed ye will magnify __yourselves__ against me, and plead against me my reproach: +6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. +7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but __there__ __is__ no judgment. +8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. +9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown __from__ my head. +10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. +11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as __one__ __of__ his enemies. +12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle. +13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. +14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. +15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. +16 I called my servant, and he gave __me__ no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. +17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's __sake__ of mine own body. +18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. +19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. +20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. +21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. +22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? +23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! +24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! +25 For I know __that__ my redeemer liveth, and __that__ he shall stand at the latter __day__ upon the earth: +26 And __though__ after my skin __worms__ destroy this __body__, yet in my flesh shall I see God: +27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; __though__ my reins be consumed within me. +28 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me? +29 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath __bringeth__ the punishments of the sword, that ye may know __there__ __is__ a judgment. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 THEN answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, +2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for __this__ I make haste. +3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. +4 Knowest thou __not__ this of old, since man was placed upon earth, +5 That the triumphing of the wicked __is__ short, and the joy of the hypocrite __but__ for a moment? +6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; +7 __Yet__ he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where __is__ he? +8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. +9 The eye also __which__ saw him shall __see__ __him__ no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. +10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. +11 His bones are full __of__ __the__ __sin__ of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. +12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, __though__ he hide it under his tongue; +13 __Though__ he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: +14 __Yet__ his meat in his bowels is turned, __it__ __is__ the gall of asps within him. +15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. +16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. +17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. +18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow __it__ down: according to __his__ substance __shall__ the restitution __be__, and he shall not rejoice __therein__. +19 Because he hath oppressed __and__ hath forsaken the poor; __because__ he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; +20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. +21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. +22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. +23 __When__ he is about to fill his belly, __God__ shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain __it__ upon him while he is eating. +24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, __and__ the bow of steel shall strike him through. +25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors __are__ upon him. +26 All darkness __shall__ __be__ hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. +27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. +28 The increase of his house shall depart, __and__ __his__ __goods__ shall flow away in the day of his wrath. +29 This __is__ the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 BUT Job answered and said, +2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. +3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. +4 As for me, __is__ my complaint to man? and if __it__ __were__ __so__, why should not my spirit be troubled? +5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay __your__ hand upon __your__ mouth. +6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. +7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? +8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. +9 Their houses __are__ safe from fear, neither __is__ the rod of God upon them. +10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. +11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. +12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. +13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. +14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. +15 What __is__ the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? +16 Lo, their good __is__ not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. +17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and __how__ __oft__ cometh their destruction upon them! __God__ distributeth sorrows in his anger. +18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. +19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know __it__. +20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. +21 For what pleasure __hath__ he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? +22 Shall __any__ teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. +23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. +24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. +25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. +26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. +27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices __which__ ye wrongfully imagine against me. +28 For ye say, Where __is__ the house of the prince? and where __are__ the dwelling places of the wicked? +29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, +30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. +31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him __what__ he hath done? +32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. +33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as __there__ __are__ innumerable before him. +34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 THEN Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, +2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? +3 __Is__ __it__ any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or __is__ __it__ gain __to__ __him__, that thou makest thy ways perfect? +4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? +5 __Is__ not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? +6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. +7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. +8 But __as__ __for__ the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. +9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. +10 Therefore snares __are__ round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee; +11 Or darkness, __that__ thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. +12 __Is__ not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! +13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? +14 Thick clouds __are__ a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. +15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? +16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: +17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? +18 Yet he filled their houses with good __things:__ but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. +19 The righteous see __it__, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. +20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth. +21 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. +22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. +23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. +24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the __gold__ of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. +25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. +26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. +27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. +28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. +29 When __men__ are cast down, then thou shalt say, __There__ __is__ lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. +30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 THEN Job answered and said, +2 Even to day __is__ my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. +3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! __that__ I might come __even__ to his seat! +4 I would order __my__ cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. +5 I would know the words __which__ he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. +6 Will he plead against me with __his__ great power? No; but he would put __strength__ in me. +7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. +8 Behold, I go forward, but he __is__ not __there;__ and backward, but I cannot perceive him: +9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold __him:__ he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see __him:__ +10 But he knoweth the way that I take: __when__ he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. +11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. +12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary __food__. +13 But he __is__ in one __mind__, and who can turn him? and __what__ his soul desireth, even __that__ he doeth. +14 For he performeth __the__ __thing__ __that__ __is__ appointed for me: and many such __things__ __are__ with him. +15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. +16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: +17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, __neither__ hath he covered the darkness from my face. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 WHY, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? +2 __Some__ remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed __thereof__. +3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. +4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. +5 Behold, __as__ wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness __yieldeth__ food for them __and__ for __their__ children. +6 They reap __every__ __one__ his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. +7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that __they__ __have__ no covering in the cold. +8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. +9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. +10 They cause __him__ to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf __from__ the hungry; +11 __Which__ make oil within their walls, __and__ tread __their__ winepresses, and suffer thirst. +12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly __to__ __them__. +13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. +14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. +15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth __his__ face. +16 In the dark they dig through houses, __which__ they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. +17 For the morning __is__ to them even as the shadow of death: if __one__ know __them__, __they__ __are__ __in__ the terrors of the shadow of death. +18 He __is__ swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. +19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: __so__ __doth__ the grave __those__ __which__ have sinned. +20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. +21 He evil entreateth the barren __that__ beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. +22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no __man__ is sure of life. +23 __Though__ it be given him __to__ __be__ in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes __are__ upon their ways. +24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all __other__, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. +25 And if __it__ __be__ not __so__ now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, +2 Dominion and fear __are__ with him, he maketh peace in his high places. +3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise? +4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean __that__ __is__ born of a woman? +5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. +6 How much less man, __that__ __is__ a worm? and the son of man, __which__ __is__ a worm? +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 BUT Job answered and said, +2 How hast thou helped __him__ __that__ __is__ without power? __how__ savest thou the arm __that__ __hath__ no strength? +3 How hast thou counselled __him__ __that__ __hath__ no wisdom? and __how__ hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? +4 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee? +5 Dead __things__ are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. +6 Hell __is__ naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. +7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, __and__ hangeth the earth upon nothing. +8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. +9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, __and__ spreadeth his cloud upon it. +10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. +11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof. +12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud. +13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. +14 Lo, these __are__ parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand? +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and said, +2 __As__ God liveth, __who__ hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, __who__ hath vexed my soul; +3 All the while my breath __is__ in me, and the spirit of God __is__ in my nostrils; +4 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. +5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. +6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach __me__ so long as I live. +7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. +8 For what __is__ the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? +9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? +10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? +11 I will teach you by the hand of God: __that__ which __is__ with the Almighty will I not conceal. +12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen __it;__ why then are ye thus altogether vain? +13 This __is__ the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, __which__ they shall receive of the Almighty. +14 If his children be multiplied, __it__ __is__ for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. +15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. +16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; +17 He may prepare __it__, but the just shall put __it__ on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. +18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth __that__ the keeper maketh. +19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he __is__ not. +20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. +21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. +22 For __God__ shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. +23 __Men__ shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 SURELY there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold __where__ they fine __it__. +2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass __is__ molten __out__ __of__ the stone. +3 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death. +4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; __even__ __the__ __waters__ forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men. +5 __As__ __for__ the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire. +6 The stones of it __are__ the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. +7 __There__ __is__ a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen: +8 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. +9 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. +10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. +11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and __the__ __thing__ __that__ __is__ hid bringeth he forth to light. +12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where __is__ the place of understanding? +13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. +14 The depth saith, It __is__ not in me: and the sea saith, __It__ __is__ not with me. +15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed __for__ the price thereof. +16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. +17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it __shall__ __not__ __be__ __for__ jewels of fine gold. +18 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom __is__ above rubies. +19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold. +20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where __is__ the place of understanding? +21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. +22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. +23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. +24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, __and__ seeth under the whole heaven; +25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. +26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: +27 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. +28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that __is__ wisdom; and to depart from evil __is__ understanding. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 MOREOVER Job continued his parable, and said, +2 Oh that I were as __in__ months past, as __in__ the days __when__ God preserved me; +3 When his candle shined upon my head, __and__ __when__ by his light I walked __through__ darkness; +4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God __was__ upon my tabernacle; +5 When the Almighty __was__ yet with me, __when__ my children __were__ about me; +6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; +7 When I went out to the gate through the city, __when__ I prepared my seat in the street! +8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, __and__ stood up. +9 The princes refrained talking, and laid __their__ hand on their mouth. +10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. +11 When the ear heard __me__, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw __me__, it gave witness to me: +12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and __him__ __that__ __had__ none to help him. +13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. +14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment __was__ as a robe and a diadem. +15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet __was__ I to the lame. +16 I __was__ a father to the poor: and the cause __which__ I knew not I searched out. +17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. +18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply __my__ days as the sand. +19 My root __was__ spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. +20 My glory __was__ fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. +21 Unto me __men__ gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. +22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. +23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide __as__ for the latter rain. +24 __If__ I laughed on them, they believed __it__ not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. +25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one __that__ comforteth the mourners. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 BUT now __they__ __that__ __are__ younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. +2 Yea, whereto __might__ the strength of their hands __profit__ me, in whom old age was perished? +3 For want and famine __they__ __were__ solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. +4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots __for__ their meat. +5 They were driven forth from among __men__, (they cried after them as __after__ a thief;) +6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, __in__ caves of the earth, and __in__ the rocks. +7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. +8 __They__ __were__ children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. +9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. +10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. +11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. +12 Upon __my__ right __hand__ rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. +13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. +14 They came __upon__ __me__ as a wide breaking in __of__ __waters:__ in the desolation they rolled themselves __upon__ __me__. +15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. +16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. +17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. +18 By the great force __of__ __my__ __disease__ is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. +19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. +20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me __not__. +21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. +22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride __upon__ __it__, and dissolvest my substance. +23 For I know __that__ thou wilt bring me __to__ death, and __to__ the house appointed for all living. +24 Howbeit he will not stretch out __his__ hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. +25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was __not__ my soul grieved for the poor? +26 When I looked for good, then evil came __unto__ __me:__ and when I waited for light, there came darkness. +27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. +28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, __and__ I cried in the congregation. +29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. +30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. +31 My harp also is __turned__ to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? +2 For what portion of God __is__ __there__ from above? and __what__ inheritance of the Almighty from on high? +3 __Is__ not destruction to the wicked? and a strange __punishment__ to the workers of iniquity? +4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? +5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; +6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. +7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; +8 __Then__ let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. +9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or __if__ I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; +10 __Then__ let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. +11 For this __is__ an heinous crime; yea, it __is__ an iniquity __to__ __be__ __punished__ __by__ the judges. +12 For it __is__ a fire __that__ consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. +13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; +14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? +15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? +16 If I have withheld the poor from __their__ desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; +17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; +18 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as __with__ a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;) +19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; +20 If his loins have not blessed me, and __if__ he were __not__ warmed with the fleece of my sheep; +21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: +22 __Then__ let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. +23 For destruction __from__ God __was__ a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. +24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, __Thou__ __art__ my confidence; +25 If I rejoiced because my wealth __was__ great, and because mine hand had gotten much; +26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking __in__ brightness; +27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: +28 This also __were__ an iniquity __to__ __be__ __punished__ __by__ the judge: for I should have denied the God __that__ __is__ above. +29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: +30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. +31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. +32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: __but__ I opened my doors to the traveller. +33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: +34 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, __and__ went not out of the door? +35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire __is__, __that__ the Almighty would answer me, and __that__ mine adversary had written a book. +36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, __and__ bind it __as__ a crown to me. +37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him. +38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain; +39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: +40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +1 SO these three men ceased to answer Job, because he __was__ righteous in his own eyes. +2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God. +3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and __yet__ had condemned Job. +4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they __were__ elder than he. +5 When Elihu saw that __there__ __was__ no answer in the mouth of __these__ three men, then his wrath was kindled. +6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I __am__ young, and ye __are__ very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. +7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. +8 But __there__ __is__ a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. +9 Great men are not __always__ wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. +10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion. +11 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say. +12 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, __there__ __was__ none of you that convinced Job, __or__ that answered his words: +13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man. +14 Now he hath not directed __his__ words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches. +15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. +16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, __and__ answered no more;) +17 __I__ __said__, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion. +18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. +19 Behold, my belly __is__ as wine __which__ hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. +20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. +21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. +22 For I know not to give flattering titles; __in__ __so__ __doing__ my maker would soon take me away. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 WHEREFORE, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words. +2 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. +3 My words __shall__ __be__ __of__ the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly. +4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. +5 If thou canst answer me, set __thy__ __words__ in order before me, stand up. +6 Behold, I __am__ according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. +7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee. +8 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of __thy__ words, __saying__, +9 I am clean without transgression, I __am__ innocent; neither __is__ __there__ iniquity in me. +10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, +11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. +12 Behold, __in__ this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. +13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. +14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, __yet__ __man__ perceiveth it not. +15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; +16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, +17 That he may withdraw man __from__ __his__ purpose, and hide pride from man. +18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. +19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong __pain:__ +20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. +21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones __that__ were not seen stick out. +22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. +23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: +24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. +25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: +26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness. +27 He looketh upon men, and __if__ __any__ say, I have sinned, and perverted __that__ __which__ __was__ right, and it profited me not; +28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. +29 Lo, all these __things__ worketh God oftentimes with man, +30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. +31 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak. +32 If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. +33 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +1 FURTHERMORE Elihu answered and said, +2 Hear my words, O ye wise __men;__ and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. +3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. +4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what __is__ good. +5 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. +6 Should I lie against my right? my wound __is__ incurable without transgression. +7 What man __is__ like Job, __who__ drinketh up scorning like water? +8 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. +9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. +10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, __that__ __he__ __should__ __do__ wickedness; and __from__ the Almighty, __that__ __he__ __should__ __commit__ iniquity. +11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to __his__ ways. +12 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. +13 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? +14 If he set his heart upon man, __if__ he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; +15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. +16 If now __thou__ __hast__ understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words. +17 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? +18 __Is__ __it__ __fit__ to say to a king, __Thou__ __art__ wicked? __and__ to princes, __Ye__ __are__ ungodly? +19 __How__ __much__ __less__ __to__ __him__ that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all __are__ the work of his hands. +20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand. +21 For his eyes __are__ upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. +22 __There__ __is__ no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. +23 For he will not lay upon man more __than__ __right;__ that he should enter into judgment with God. +24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. +25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth __them__ in the night, so that they are destroyed. +26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others; +27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways: +28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. +29 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth __his__ face, who then can behold him? whether __it__ __be__ __done__ against a nation, or against a man only: +30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared. +31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne __chastisement__, I will not offend __any__ __more:__ +32 __That__ __which__ I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more. +33 __Should__ __it__ __be__ according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest. +34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me. +35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words __were__ without wisdom. +36 My desire __is__ __that__ Job may be tried unto the end because of __his__ answers for wicked men. +37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth __his__ __hands__ among us, and multiplieth his words against God. +:::SET CHAPTER 35 +1 ELIHU spake moreover, and said, +2 Thinkest thou this to be right, __that__ thou saidst, My righteousness __is__ more than God's? +3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? __and__, What profit shall I have, __if__ __I__ __be__ __cleansed__ from my sin? +4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. +5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds __which__ are higher than thou. +6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or __if__ thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? +7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? +8 Thy wickedness __may__ __hurt__ a man as thou __art;__ and thy righteousness __may__ __profit__ the son of man. +9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make __the__ __oppressed__ to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. +10 But none saith, Where __is__ God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; +11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? +12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. +13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. +14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, __yet__ judgment __is__ before him; therefore trust thou in him. +15 But now, because __it__ __is__ not __so__, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth __it__ not in great extremity: +16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. +:::SET CHAPTER 36 +1 ELIHU also proceeded, and said, +2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that __I__ __have__ yet to speak on God's behalf. +3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. +4 For truly my words __shall__ not __be__ false: he that is perfect in knowledge __is__ with thee. +5 Behold, God __is__ mighty, and despiseth not __any:__ __he__ __is__ mighty in strength __and__ wisdom. +6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. +7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings __are__ __they__ on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted. +8 And if __they__ __be__ bound in fetters, __and__ be holden in cords of affliction; +9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. +10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. +11 If they obey and serve __him__, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. +12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. +13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them. +14 They die in youth, and their life __is__ among the unclean. +15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. +16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait __into__ a broad place, where __there__ __is__ no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table __should__ __be__ full of fatness. +17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold __on__ __thee__. +18 Because __there__ __is__ wrath, __beware__ lest he take thee away with __his__ stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. +19 Will he esteem thy riches? __no__, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. +20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. +21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. +22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? +23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? +24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. +25 Every man may see it; man may behold __it__ afar off. +26 Behold, God __is__ great, and we know __him__ not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. +27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: +28 Which the clouds do drop __and__ distil upon man abundantly. +29 Also can __any__ understand the spreadings of the clouds, __or__ the noise of his tabernacle? +30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. +31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance. +32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it __not__ __to__ __shine__ by __the__ __cloud__ that cometh betwixt. +33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. +:::SET CHAPTER 37 +1 AT this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place. +2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound __that__ goeth out of his mouth. +3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth. +4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard. +5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. +6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou __on__ the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. +7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work. +8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. +9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. +10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. +11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: +12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. +13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy. +14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. +15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? +16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? +17 How thy garments __are__ warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south __wind?__ +18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, __which__ __is__ strong, __and__ as a molten looking glass? +19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; __for__ we cannot order __our__ __speech__ by reason of darkness. +20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up. +21 And now __men__ see not the bright light which __is__ in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. +22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God __is__ terrible majesty. +23 __Touching__ the Almighty, we cannot find him out: __he__ __is__ excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict. +24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any __that__ __are__ wise of heart. +:::SET CHAPTER 38 +1 THEN the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, +2 Who __is__ this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? +3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. +4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. +5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? +6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; +7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? +8 Or __who__ shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, __as__ __if__ it had issued out of the womb? +9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, +10 And brake up for it my decreed __place__, and set bars and doors, +11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? +12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; __and__ caused the dayspring to know his place; +13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? +14 It is turned as clay __to__ the seal; and they stand as a garment. +15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. +16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? +17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? +18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. +19 Where __is__ the way __where__ light dwelleth? and __as__ __for__ darkness, where __is__ the place thereof, +20 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths __to__ the house thereof? +21 Knowest thou __it__, because thou wast then born? or __because__ the number of thy days __is__ great? +22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, +23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? +24 By what way is the light parted, __which__ scattereth the east wind upon the earth? +25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; +26 To cause it to rain on the earth, __where__ no man __is;__ __on__ the wilderness, wherein __there__ __is__ no man; +27 To satisfy the desolate and waste __ground;__ and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? +28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? +29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? +30 The waters are hid as __with__ a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen. +31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? +32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? +33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? +34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? +35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we __are?__ +36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? +37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, +38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? +39 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, +40 When they couch in __their__ dens, __and__ abide in the covert to lie in wait? +41 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat. +:::SET CHAPTER 39 +1 KNOWEST thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? __or__ canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? +2 Canst thou number the months __that__ they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? +3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. +4 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. +5 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? +6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. +7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. +8 The range of the mountains __is__ his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. +9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? +10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? +11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength __is__ great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? +12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather __it__ __into__ thy barn? +13 __Gavest__ __thou__ the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? +14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, +15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. +16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though __they__ __were__ not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; +17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding. +18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. +19 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? +20 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils __is__ terrible. +21 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in __his__ strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. +22 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. +23 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. +24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that __it__ __is__ the sound of the trumpet. +25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting. +26 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, __and__ stretch her wings toward the south? +27 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? +28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. +29 From thence she seeketh the prey, __and__ her eyes behold afar off. +30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain __are__, there __is__ she. +:::SET CHAPTER 40 +1 MOREOVER the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered Job, and said, +2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct __him?__ he that reproveth God, let him answer it. +3 ¶ Then Job answered the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, +4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. +5 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further. +6 ¶ Then answered the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, +7 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. +8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? +9 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? +10 Deck thyself now __with__ majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. +11 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one __that__ __is__ proud, and abase him. +12 Look on every one __that__ __is__ proud, __and__ bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. +13 Hide them in the dust together; __and__ bind their faces in secret. +14 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee. +15 ¶ Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. +16 Lo now, his strength __is__ in his loins, and his force __is__ in the navel of his belly. +17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. +18 His bones __are__ __as__ strong pieces of brass; his bones __are__ like bars of iron. +19 He __is__ the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach __unto__ __him__. +20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. +21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. +22 The shady trees cover him __with__ their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. +23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, __and__ hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. +24 He taketh it with his eyes: __his__ nose pierceth through snares. +:::SET CHAPTER 41 +1 CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord __which__ thou lettest down? +2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? +3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft __words__ unto thee? +4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? +5 Wilt thou play with him as __with__ a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? +6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? +7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? +8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. +9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not __one__ be cast down even at the sight of him? +10 None __is__ __so__ fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me? +11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay __him?__ __whatsoever__ __is__ under the whole heaven is mine. +12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. +13 Who can discover the face of his garment? __or__ who can come __to__ __him__ with his double bridle? +14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth __are__ terrible round about. +15 __His__ scales __are__ __his__ pride, shut up together __as__ __with__ a close seal. +16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. +17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered. +18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes __are__ like the eyelids of the morning. +19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, __and__ sparks of fire leap out. +20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as __out__ of a seething pot or caldron. +21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth. +22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. +23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. +24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether __millstone__. +25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves. +26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. +27 He esteemeth iron as straw, __and__ brass as rotten wood. +28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. +29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. +30 Sharp stones __are__ under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire. +31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. +32 He maketh a path to shine after him; __one__ would think the deep __to__ __be__ hoary. +33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. +34 He beholdeth all high __things:__ he __is__ a king over all the children of pride. +:::SET CHAPTER 42 +1 THEN Job answered the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, +2 I know that thou canst do every __thing__, and __that__ no thought can be withholden from thee. +3 Who __is__ he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. +4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. +5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. +6 Wherefore I abhor __myself__, and repent in dust and ashes. +7 ¶ And it was __so__, that after the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had spoken these words unto Job, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me __the__ __thing__ __that__ __is__ right, as my servant Job __hath__. +8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you __after__ __your__ folly, in that ye have not spoken of me __the__ __thing__ __which__ __is__ right, like my servant Job. +9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite __and__ Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded them: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ also accepted Job. +10 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ gave Job twice as much as he had before. +11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. +12 So the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. +13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. +14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch. +15 And in all the land were no women found __so__ fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. +16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, __even__ four generations. +17 So Job died, __being__ old and full of days. +:::SET BOOK Psalms +:::SET TITLE The Book of Psalms +:::SET BOOKCHAPTER Psalm +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 BLESSED __is__ the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. +2 But his delight __is__ in the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. +3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. +4 The ungodly __are__ not so: but __are__ like the chaff which the wind driveth away. +5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. +6 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 WHY do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? +2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and against his anointed, __saying__, +3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. +4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. +5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. +6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. +7 I will declare the decree: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said unto me, Thou __art__ my Son; this day have I begotten thee. +8 Ask of me, and I shall give __thee__ the heathen __for__ thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth __for__ thy possession. +9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. +10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. +11 Serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with fear, and rejoice with trembling. +12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish __from__ the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed __are__ all they that put their trust in him. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +> A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. +1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many __are__ they that rise up against me. +2 Many __there__ __be__ which say of my soul, __There__ __is__ no help for him in God. Selah. +3 But thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __art__ a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. +4 I cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. +5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sustained me. +6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set __themselves__ against me round about. +7 Arise, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies __upon__ the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. +8 Salvation __belongeth__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: thy blessing __is__ upon thy people. Selah. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +> To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. +1 HEAR me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me __when__ __I__ __was__ in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. +2 O ye sons of men, how long __will__ __ye__ __turn__ my glory into shame? __how__ __long__ will ye love vanity, __and__ seek after leasing? Selah. +3 But know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will hear when I call unto him. +4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. +5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 __There__ __be__ many that say, Who will shew us __any__ good? $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. +7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time __that__ their corn and their wine increased. +8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, only makest me dwell in safety. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +> To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. +1 GIVE ear to my words, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, consider my meditation. +2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. +3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; in the morning will I direct __my__ __prayer__ unto thee, and will look up. +4 For thou __art__ not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. +5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. +6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. +7 But as for me, I will come __into__ thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: __and__ in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. +8 Lead me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. +9 For __there__ __is__ no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part __is__ very wickedness; their throat __is__ an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. +10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee. +11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. +12 For thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as __with__ a shield. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +> To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. +1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. +2 Have mercy upon me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for I __am__ weak: O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, heal me; for my bones are vexed. +3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, how long? +4 Return, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. +5 For in death __there__ __is__ no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? +6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. +7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies. +8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath heard the voice of my weeping. +9 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath heard my supplication; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will receive my prayer. +10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return __and__ be ashamed suddenly. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +> Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite. +1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me: +2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending __it__ in pieces, while __there__ __is__ none to deliver. +3 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; +4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) +5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take __it;__ yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah. +6 Arise, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me __to__ the judgment __that__ thou hast commanded. +7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high. +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall judge the people: judge me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity __that__ __is__ in me. +9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. +10 My defence __is__ of God, which saveth the upright in heart. +11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry __with__ __the__ __wicked__ every day. +12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. +13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. +14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. +15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch __which__ he made. +16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. +17 I will praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ most high. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +> To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. +1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent __is__ thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. +2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. +3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; +4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? +5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. +6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all __things__ under his feet: +7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; +8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, __and__ __whatsoever__ passeth through the paths of the seas. +9 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our Lord, how excellent __is__ thy name in all the earth! +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +> To the chief Musician upon Muth-labben, A Psalm of David. +1 I WILL praise __thee__, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works. +2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High. +3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence. +4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right. +5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. +6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. +7 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. +8 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. +9 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. +10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. +11 Sing praises to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings. +12 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. +13 Have mercy upon me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; consider my trouble __which__ __I__ __suffer__ of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: +14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. +15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit __that__ they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. +16 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is known __by__ the judgment __which__ he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. +17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, __and__ all the nations that forget God. +18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall __not__ perish for ever. +19 Arise, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. +20 Put them in fear, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __that__ the nations may know themselves __to__ __be__ __but__ men. Selah. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 WHY standest thou afar off, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? __why__ hidest thou __thyself__ in times of trouble? +2 The wicked in __his__ pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. +3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, __whom__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ abhorreth. +4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek __after__ __God:__ God __is__ not in all his thoughts. +5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments __are__ far above out of his sight: __as__ __for__ all his enemies, he puffeth at them. +6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for __I__ __shall__ never __be__ in adversity. +7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue __is__ mischief and vanity. +8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. +9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. +10 He croucheth, __and__ humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. +11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see __it__. +12 Arise, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. +13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require __it__. +14 Thou hast seen __it;__ for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite __it__ with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. +15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil __man:__ seek out his wickedness __till__ thou find none. +16 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. +17 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: +18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +> To the chief Musician, __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 IN the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee __as__ a bird to your mountain? +2 For, lo, the wicked bend __their__ bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. +3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? +4 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ in his holy temple, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s throne __is__ in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. +5 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. +6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: __this__ __shall__ __be__ the portion of their cup. +7 For the righteous $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +> To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. +1 HELP, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. +2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: __with__ flattering lips __and__ with a double heart do they speak. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall cut off all flattering lips, __and__ the tongue that speaketh proud things: +4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips __are__ our own: who __is__ lord over us? +5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; I will set __him__ in safety __from__ __him__ __that__ puffeth at him. +6 The words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __are__ pure words: __as__ silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. +7 Thou shalt keep them, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. +8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 HOW long wilt thou forget me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? +2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, __having__ sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? +3 Consider __and__ hear me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the __sleep__ __of__ death; +4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; __and__ those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. +5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. +6 I will sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +> To the chief Musician, __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 THE fool hath said in his heart, __There__ __is__ no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, __there__ __is__ none that doeth good. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, __and__ seek God. +3 They are all gone aside, they are __all__ together become filthy: __there__ __is__ none that doeth good, no, not one. +4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people __as__ they eat bread, and call not upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 There were they in great fear: for God __is__ in the generation of the righteous. +6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ his refuge. +7 Oh that the salvation of Israel __were__ __come__ out of Zion! when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, __and__ Israel shall be glad. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +> A Psalm of David. +1 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? +2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. +3 __He__ __that__ backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. +4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. __He__ __that__ sweareth to __his__ __own__ hurt, and changeth not. +5 __He__ __that__ putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these __things__ shall never be moved. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +> Michtam of David. +1 PRESERVE me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust. +2 __O__ __my__ __soul__, thou hast said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Thou __art__ my Lord: my goodness __extendeth__ not to thee; +3 __But__ to the saints that __are__ in the earth, and __to__ the excellent, in whom __is__ all my delight. +4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied __that__ hasten __after__ another __god:__ their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. +5 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. +6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant __places;__ yea, I have a goodly heritage. +7 I will bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. +8 I have set the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ always before me: because __he__ __is__ at my right hand, I shall not be moved. +9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. +10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. +11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence __is__ fulness of joy; at thy right hand __there__ __are__ pleasures for evermore. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +> A Prayer of David. +1 HEAR the right, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, __that__ __goeth__ not out of feigned lips. +2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. +3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited __me__ in the night; thou hast tried me, __and__ shalt find nothing; I am purposed __that__ my mouth shall not transgress. +4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept __me__ __from__ the paths of the destroyer. +5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, __that__ my footsteps slip not. +6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, __and__ __hear__ my speech. +7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust __in__ __thee__ from those that rise up __against__ __them__. +8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, +9 From the wicked that oppress me, __from__ my deadly enemies, __who__ compass me about. +10 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. +11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; +12 Like as a lion __that__ is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. +13 Arise, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, __which__ __is__ thy sword: +14 From men __which__ __are__ thy hand, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from men of the world, __which__ __have__ their portion in __this__ life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid __treasure:__ they are full of children, and leave the rest of their __substance__ to their babes. +15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +> To the chief Musician, __A__ __Psalm__ of David, the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who spake unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the words of this song in the day __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, +1 I WILL love thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, my strength. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, __and__ my high tower. +3 I will call upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __who__ __is__ __worthy__ to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. +4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. +5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. +6 In my distress I called upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, __even__ into his ears. +7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. +8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. +9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness __was__ under his feet. +10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. +11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him __were__ dark waters __and__ thick clouds of the skies. +12 At the brightness __that__ __was__ before him his thick clouds passed, hail __stones__ and coals of fire. +13 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail __stones__ and coals of fire. +14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. +15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. +16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. +17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. +18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was my stay. +19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. +20 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. +21 For I have kept the ways of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have not wickedly departed from my God. +22 For all his judgments __were__ before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. +23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity. +24 Therefore hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. +25 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; +26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. +27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. +28 For thou wilt light my candle: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God will enlighten my darkness. +29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. +30 __As__ __for__ God, his way __is__ perfect: the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is tried: he __is__ a buckler to all those that trust in him. +31 For who __is__ God save the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? or who __is__ a rock save our God? +32 __It__ __is__ God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. +33 He maketh my feet like hinds' __feet__, and setteth me upon my high places. +34 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. +35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. +36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. +37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. +38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. +39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. +40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. +41 They cried, but __there__ __was__ none to save __them:__ __even__ unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but he answered them not. +42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. +43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; __and__ thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people __whom__ I have not known shall serve me. +44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me. +45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places. +46 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth; and blessed __be__ my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. +47 __It__ __is__ God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. +48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man. +49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name. +50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. +2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. +3 __There__ __is__ no speech nor language, __where__ their voice is not heard. +4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, +5 Which __is__ as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, __and__ rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. +6 His going forth __is__ from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. +7 The law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ sure, making wise the simple. +8 The statutes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __are__ right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ pure, enlightening the eyes. +9 The fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __are__ true __and__ righteous altogether. +10 More to be desired __are__ __they__ than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. +11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: __and__ in keeping of them __there__ __is__ great reward. +12 Who can understand __his__ errors? cleanse thou me from secret __faults__. +13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous __sins;__ let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. +14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, my strength, and my redeemer. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 THE $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; +2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; +3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. +4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. +5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up __our__ banners: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ fulfil all thy petitions. +6 Now know I that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. +7 Some __trust__ in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. +9 Save, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: let the king hear us when we call. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 THE king shall joy in thy strength, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! +2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. +3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head. +4 He asked life of thee, __and__ thou gavest __it__ him, __even__ length of days for ever and ever. +5 His glory __is__ great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him. +6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance. +7 For the king trusteth in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. +8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. +9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. +10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. +11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, __which__ they are not able __to__ __perform__. +12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, __when__ thou shalt make ready __thine__ __arrows__ upon thy strings against the face of them. +13 Be thou exalted, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in thine own strength: __so__ will we sing and praise thy power. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +> To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. +1 MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? __why__ __art__ __thou__ __so__ far from helping me, __and__ __from__ the words of my roaring? +2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. +3 But thou __art__ holy, __O__ __thou__ that inhabitest the praises of Israel. +4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. +5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. +6 But I __am__ a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. +7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, __saying__, +8 He trusted on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __that__ he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. +9 But thou __art__ he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope __when__ __I__ __was__ upon my mother's breasts. +10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou __art__ my God from my mother's belly. +11 Be not far from me; for trouble __is__ near; for __there__ __is__ none to help. +12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong __bulls__ of Bashan have beset me round. +13 They gaped upon me __with__ their mouths, __as__ a ravening and a roaring lion. +14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. +15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. +16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. +17 I may tell all my bones: they look __and__ stare upon me. +18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. +19 But be not thou far from me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: O my strength, haste thee to help me. +20 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. +21 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. +22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. +23 Ye that fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. +24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. +25 My praise __shall__ __be__ of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. +26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. +27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. +28 For the kingdom __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s: and he __is__ the governor among the nations. +29 All __they__ __that__ __be__ fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. +30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. +31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done __this__. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +> A Psalm of David. +1 THE $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ my shepherd; I shall not want. +2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. +3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. +4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou __art__ with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. +5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. +6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +> A Psalm of David. +1 THE earth __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. +2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. +3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? or who shall stand in his holy place? +4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. +5 He shall receive the blessing from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. +6 This __is__ the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. +7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. +8 Who __is__ this King of glory? The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ strong and mighty, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ mighty in battle. +9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift __them__ up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. +10 Who is this King of glory? The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, he __is__ the King of glory. Selah. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 UNTO thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, do I lift up my soul. +2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. +3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. +4 Shew me thy ways, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; teach me thy paths. +5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou __art__ the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. +6 Remember, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they __have__ __been__ ever of old. +7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 Good and upright __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. +9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. +10 All the paths of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __are__ mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. +11 For thy name's sake, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, pardon mine iniquity; for it __is__ great. +12 What man __is__ he that feareth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? him shall he teach in the way __that__ he shall choose. +13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. +14 The secret of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. +15 Mine eyes __are__ ever toward the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. +16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I __am__ desolate and afflicted. +17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: __O__ bring thou me out of my distresses. +18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. +19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. +20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. +21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. +22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 JUDGE me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; __therefore__ I shall not slide. +2 Examine me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. +3 For thy lovingkindness __is__ before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth. +4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. +5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. +6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +7 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. +8 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. +9 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: +10 In whose hands __is__ mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. +11 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. +12 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 THE $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? +2 When the wicked, __even__ mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. +3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this __will__ I __be__ confident. +4 One __thing__ have I desired of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to inquire in his temple. +5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. +6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 Hear, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __when__ I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. +8 __When__ __thou__ __saidst__, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, will I seek. +9 Hide not thy face __far__ from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. +10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will take me up. +11 Teach me thy way, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. +12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. +13 __I__ __had__ __fainted__, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the land of the living. +14 Wait on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 UNTO thee will I cry, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my rock; be not silent to me: lest, __if__ thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. +2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. +3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief __is__ in their hearts. +4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. +5 Because they regard not the works of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. +6 Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ their strength, and he __is__ the saving strength of his anointed. +9 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +> A Psalm of David. +1 GIVE unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O ye mighty, give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ glory and strength. +2 Give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the glory due unto his name; worship the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the beauty of holiness. +3 The voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ upon many waters. +4 The voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ powerful; the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ full of majesty. +5 The voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ breaketh the cedars; yea, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. +6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. +7 The voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ divideth the flames of fire. +8 The voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shaketh the wilderness; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. +9 The voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of __his__ glory. +10 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sitteth upon the flood; yea, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sitteth King for ever. +11 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will give strength unto his people; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will bless his people with peace. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +> A Psalm __and__ Song __at__ the dedication of the house of David. +1 I WILL extol thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. +2 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. +3 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. +4 Sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. +5 For his anger __endureth__ __but__ a moment; in his favour __is__ life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy __cometh__ in the morning. +6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. +7 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, __and__ I was troubled. +8 I cried to thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ I made supplication. +9 What profit __is__ __there__ in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? +10 Hear, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have mercy upon me: $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, be thou my helper. +11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; +12 To the end that __my__ glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 IN thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. +2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. +3 For thou __art__ my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. +4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou __art__ my strength. +5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of truth. +6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; +8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. +9 Have mercy upon me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, __yea__, my soul and my belly. +10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. +11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. +12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. +13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear __was__ on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. +14 But I trusted in thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I said, Thou __art__ my God. +15 My times __are__ in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. +16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. +17 Let me not be ashamed, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, __and__ let them be silent in the grave. +18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. +19 __Oh__ how great __is__ thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; __which__ thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! +20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. +21 Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. +22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. +23 O love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all ye his saints: __for__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. +24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David, Maschil. +1 BLESSED __is__ __he__ __whose__ transgression __is__ forgiven, __whose__ sin __is__ covered. +2 Blessed __is__ the man unto whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit __there__ __is__ no guile. +3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. +4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. +5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. +6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. +7 Thou __art__ my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. +8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. +9 Be ye not as the horse, __or__ as the mule, __which__ have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. +10 Many sorrows __shall__ __be__ to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, mercy shall compass him about. +11 Be glad in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all __ye__ __that__ __are__ upright in heart. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 REJOICE in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O ye righteous: __for__ praise is comely for the upright. +2 Praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery __and__ an instrument of ten strings. +3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise. +4 For the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ right; and all his works __are__ __done__ in truth. +5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 By the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. +7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. +8 Let all the earth fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. +9 For he spake, and it was __done;__ he commanded, and it stood fast. +10 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. +11 The counsel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. +12 Blessed __is__ the nation whose God __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; __and__ the people __whom__ he hath chosen for his own inheritance. +13 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. +14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. +15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. +16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. +17 An horse __is__ a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver __any__ by his great strength. +18 Behold, the eye of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; +19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. +20 Our soul waiteth for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he __is__ our help and our shield. +21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. +22 Let thy mercy, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, be upon us, according as we hope in thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. +1 I WILL bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ at all times: his praise __shall__ continually __be__ in my mouth. +2 My soul shall make her boast in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: the humble shall hear __thereof__, and be glad. +3 O magnify the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with me, and let us exalt his name together. +4 I sought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. +5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. +6 This poor man cried, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heard __him__, and saved him out of all his troubles. +7 The angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. +8 O taste and see that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ good: blessed __is__ the man __that__ trusteth in him. +9 O fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye his saints: for __there__ __is__ no want to them that fear him. +10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall not want any good __thing__. +11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 What man __is__ __he__ __that__ desireth life, __and__ loveth __many__ days, that he may see good? +13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. +14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. +15 The eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __are__ upon the righteous, and his ears __are__ __open__ unto their cry. +16 The face of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. +17 __The__ __righteous__ cry, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. +18 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. +19 Many __are__ the afflictions of the righteous: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delivereth him out of them all. +20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. +21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. +22 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. +:::SET CHAPTER 35 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 PLEAD __my__ __cause__, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. +2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. +3 Draw out also the spear, and stop __the__ __way__ against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I __am__ thy salvation. +4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. +5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ chase __them__. +6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ persecute them. +7 For without cause have they hid for me their net __in__ a pit, __which__ without cause they have digged for my soul. +8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. +9 And my soul shall be joyful in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it shall rejoice in his salvation. +10 All my bones shall say, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who __is__ like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? +11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge __things__ that I knew not. +12 They rewarded me evil for good __to__ the spoiling of my soul. +13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing __was__ sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. +14 I behaved myself as though __he__ __had__ __been__ my friend __or__ brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth __for__ __his__ mother. +15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: __yea__, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew __it__ not; they did tear __me__, and ceased not: +16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. +17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. +18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. +19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: __neither__ let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. +20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against __them__ __that__ __are__ quiet in the land. +21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, __and__ said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen __it__. +22 __This__ thou hast seen, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. +23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, __even__ unto my cause, my God and my Lord. +24 Judge me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. +25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. +26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify __themselves__ against me. +27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. +28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness __and__ of thy praise all the day long. +:::SET CHAPTER 36 +> To the chief Musician, __A__ __Psalm__ of David the servant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +1 THE transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, __that__ __there__ __is__ no fear of God before his eyes. +2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. +3 The words of his mouth __are__ iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, __and__ to do good. +4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way __that__ __is__ not good; he abhorreth not evil. +5 Thy mercy, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __is__ in the heavens; __and__ thy faithfulness __reacheth__ unto the clouds. +6 Thy righteousness __is__ like the great mountains; thy judgments __are__ a great deep: O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou preservest man and beast. +7 How excellent __is__ thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. +8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. +9 For with thee __is__ the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. +10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. +11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me. +12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise. +:::SET CHAPTER 37 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 FRET not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. +2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. +3 Trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and do good; __so__ shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. +4 Delight thyself also in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. +5 Commit thy way unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; trust also in him; and he shall bring __it__ to pass. +6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. +7 Rest in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. +8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. +9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, they shall inherit the earth. +10 For yet a little while, and the wicked __shall__ not __be:__ yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it __shall__ not __be__. +11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. +12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. +13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. +14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, __and__ to slay such as be of upright conversation. +15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. +16 A little that a righteous man hath __is__ better than the riches of many wicked. +17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ upholdeth the righteous. +18 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. +19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. +20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __shall__ __be__ as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. +21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. +22 For __such__ __as__ __be__ blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and __they__ __that__ __be__ cursed of him shall be cut off. +23 The steps of a __good__ man are ordered by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and he delighteth in his way. +24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ upholdeth __him__ __with__ his hand. +25 I have been young, and __now__ am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. +26 __He__ __is__ ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed __is__ blessed. +27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. +28 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. +29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. +30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. +31 The law of his God __is__ in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. +32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. +33 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. +34 Wait on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see __it__. +35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. +36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he __was__ not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. +37 Mark the perfect __man__, and behold the upright: for the end of __that__ man __is__ peace. +38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. +39 But the salvation of the righteous __is__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __he__ __is__ their strength in the time of trouble. +40 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him. +:::SET CHAPTER 38 +> A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. +1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. +2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. +3 __There__ __is__ no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither __is__ __there__ __any__ rest in my bones because of my sin. +4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. +5 My wounds stink __and__ are corrupt because of my foolishness. +6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. +7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome __disease:__ and __there__ __is__ no soundness in my flesh. +8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. +9 Lord, all my desire __is__ before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. +10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. +11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. +12 They also that seek after my life lay snares __for__ __me:__ and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. +13 But I, as a deaf __man__, heard not; and __I__ __was__ as a dumb man __that__ openeth not his mouth. +14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth __are__ no reproofs. +15 For in thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. +16 For I said, __Hear__ __me__, lest __otherwise__ they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify __themselves__ against me. +17 For I __am__ ready to halt, and my sorrow __is__ continually before me. +18 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. +19 But mine enemies __are__ lively, __and__ they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. +20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow __the__ __thing__ __that__ good __is__. +21 Forsake me not, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: O my God, be not far from me. +22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. +:::SET CHAPTER 39 +> To the chief Musician, __even__ to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. +1 I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. +2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, __even__ from good; and my sorrow was stirred. +3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: __then__ spake I with my tongue, +4 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it __is;__ __that__ I may know how frail I __am__. +5 Behold, thou hast made my days __as__ an handbreadth; and mine age __is__ as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state __is__ altogether vanity. Selah. +6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up __riches__, and knoweth not who shall gather them. +7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope __is__ in thee. +8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. +9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst __it__. +10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. +11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man __is__ vanity. Selah. +12 Hear my prayer, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I __am__ a stranger with thee, __and__ a sojourner, as all my fathers __were__. +13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. +:::SET CHAPTER 40 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 I WAITED patiently for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. +2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, __and__ established my goings. +3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, __even__ praise unto our God: many shall see __it__, and fear, and shall trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 Blessed __is__ that man that maketh the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. +5 Many, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, __are__ thy wonderful works __which__ thou hast done, and thy thoughts __which__ __are__ to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: __if__ I would declare and speak __of__ __them__, they are more than can be numbered. +6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. +7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book __it__ __is__ written of me, +8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law __is__ within my heart. +9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou knowest. +10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. +11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. +12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. +13 Be pleased, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to deliver me: O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, make haste to help me. +14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. +15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. +16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be magnified. +17 But I __am__ poor and needy; __yet__ the Lord thinketh upon me: thou __art__ my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. +:::SET CHAPTER 41 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 BLESSED __is__ he that considereth the poor: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will deliver him in time of trouble. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will preserve him, and keep him alive; __and__ he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. +4 I said, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. +5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? +6 And if he come to see __me__, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; __when__ he goeth abroad, he telleth __it__. +7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. +8 An evil disease, __say__ __they__, cleaveth fast unto him: and __now__ that he lieth he shall rise up no more. +9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up __his__ heel against me. +10 But thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. +11 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. +12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. +13 Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. +:::SET CHAPTER 42 +> To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. +1 AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. +2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? +3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where __is__ thy God? +4 When I remember these __things__, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. +5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and __why__ art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him __for__ the help of his countenance. +6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. +7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. +8 __Yet__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song __shall__ __be__ with me, __and__ my prayer unto the God of my life. +9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? +10 __As__ with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where __is__ thy God? +11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, __who__ __is__ the health of my countenance, and my God. +:::SET CHAPTER 43 +1 JUDGE me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. +2 For thou __art__ the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? +3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. +4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. +5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, __who__ __is__ the health of my countenance, and my God. +:::SET CHAPTER 44 +> To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. +1 WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, __what__ work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. +2 __How__ thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; __how__ thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. +3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. +4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. +5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. +6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. +7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. +8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. +9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. +10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. +11 Thou hast given us like sheep __appointed__ for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. +12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase __thy__ __wealth__ by their price. +13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. +14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. +15 My confusion __is__ continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, +16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. +17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. +18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; +19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. +20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; +21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. +22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. +23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast __us__ not off for ever. +24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, __and__ forgettest our affliction and our oppression? +25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. +26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. +:::SET CHAPTER 45 +> To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. +1 MY heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue __is__ the pen of a ready writer. +2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. +3 Gird thy sword upon __thy__ thigh, O __most__ mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. +4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness __and__ righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. +5 Thine arrows __are__ sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; __whereby__ the people fall under thee. +6 Thy throne, O God, __is__ for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom __is__ a right sceptre. +7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. +8 All thy garments __smell__ of myrrh, and aloes, __and__ cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. +9 Kings' daughters __were__ among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. +10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; +11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he __is__ thy Lord; and worship thou him. +12 And the daughter of Tyre __shall__ __be__ __there__ with a gift; __even__ the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour. +13 The king's daughter __is__ all glorious within: her clothing __is__ of wrought gold. +14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. +15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace. +16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth. +17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 46 +> To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. +1 GOD __is__ our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. +2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; +3 __Though__ the waters thereof roar __and__ be troubled, __though__ the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. +4 __There__ __is__ a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy __place__ of the tabernacles of the most High. +5 God __is__ in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, __and__ __that__ right early. +6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ with us; the God of Jacob __is__ our refuge. Selah. +8 Come, behold the works of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, what desolations he hath made in the earth. +9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. +10 Be still, and know that I __am__ God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. +11 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ with us; the God of Jacob __is__ our refuge. Selah. +:::SET CHAPTER 47 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. +1 O CLAP your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. +2 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ most high __is__ terrible; __he__ __is__ a great King over all the earth. +3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. +4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. +5 God is gone up with a shout, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with the sound of a trumpet. +6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. +7 For God __is__ the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. +8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. +9 The princes of the people are gathered together, __even__ the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth __belong__ unto God: he is greatly exalted. +:::SET CHAPTER 48 +> A Song __and__ Psalm for the sons of Korah. +1 GREAT __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, __in__ the mountain of his holiness. +2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, __is__ mount Zion, __on__ the sides of the north, the city of the great King. +3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge. +4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. +5 They saw __it__, __and__ so they marvelled; they were troubled, __and__ hasted away. +6 Fear took hold upon them there, __and__ pain, as of a woman in travail. +7 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind. +8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah. +9 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. +10 According to thy name, O God, so __is__ thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness. +11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. +12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. +13 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell __it__ to the generation following. +14 For this God __is__ our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide __even__ unto death. +:::SET CHAPTER 49 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. +1 HEAR this, all __ye__ people; give ear, all __ye__ inhabitants of the world: +2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together. +3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart __shall__ __be__ of understanding. +4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp. +5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, __when__ the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about? +6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; +7 None __of__ __them__ can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: +8 (For the redemption of their soul __is__ precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) +9 That he should still live for ever, __and__ not see corruption. +10 For he seeth __that__ wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. +11 Their inward thought __is__, __that__ their houses __shall__ __continue__ for ever, __and__ their dwelling places to all generations; they call __their__ lands after their own names. +12 Nevertheless man __being__ in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts __that__ perish. +13 This their way __is__ their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. +14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. +15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. +16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; +17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. +18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and __men__ will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. +19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. +20 Man __that__ __is__ in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts __that__ perish. +:::SET CHAPTER 50 +> A Psalm of Asaph. +1 THE mighty God, __even__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. +2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. +3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. +4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. +5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. +6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God __is__ judge himself. Selah. +7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I __am__ God, __even__ thy God. +8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, __to__ __have__ __been__ continually before me. +9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, __nor__ he goats out of thy folds. +10 For every beast of the forest __is__ mine, __and__ the cattle upon a thousand hills. +11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field __are__ mine. +12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world __is__ mine, and the fulness thereof. +13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? +14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: +15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. +16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or __that__ thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? +17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. +18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. +19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. +20 Thou sittest __and__ speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. +21 These __things__ hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether __such__ __an__ __one__ as thyself: __but__ I will reprove thee, and set __them__ in order before thine eyes. +22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear __you__ in pieces, and __there__ __be__ none to deliver. +23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth __his__ conversation __aright__ will I shew the salvation of God. +:::SET CHAPTER 51 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. +1 HAVE mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. +2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. +3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin __is__ ever before me. +4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done __this__ evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, __and__ be clear when thou judgest. +5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. +6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden __part__ thou shalt make me to know wisdom. +7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. +8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; __that__ the bones __which__ thou hast broken may rejoice. +9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. +10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. +11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. +12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me __with__ __thy__ free spirit. +13 __Then__ will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. +14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: __and__ my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. +15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. +16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give __it:__ thou delightest not in burnt offering. +17 The sacrifices of God __are__ a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. +18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. +19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar. +:::SET CHAPTER 52 +> To the chief Musician, Maschil, __A__ __Psalm__ of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. +1 WHY boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God __endureth__ continually. +2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully. +3 Thou lovest evil more than good; __and__ lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. +4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O __thou__ deceitful tongue. +5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of __thy__ dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. +6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him: +7 Lo, __this__ __is__ the man __that__ made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, __and__ strengthened himself in his wickedness. +8 But I __am__ like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. +9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done __it:__ and I will wait on thy name; for __it__ __is__ good before thy saints. +:::SET CHAPTER 53 +> To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 THE fool hath said in his heart, __There__ __is__ no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: __there__ __is__ none that doeth good. +2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were __any__ that did understand, that did seek God. +3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; __there__ __is__ none that doeth good, no, not one. +4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people __as__ they eat bread: they have not called upon God. +5 There were they in great fear, __where__ no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth __against__ thee: thou hast put __them__ to shame, because God hath despised them. +6 Oh that the salvation of Israel __were__ __come__ out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, __and__ Israel shall be glad. +:::SET CHAPTER 54 +> To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, __A__ __Psalm__ of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? +1 SAVE me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. +2 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. +3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. +4 Behold, God __is__ mine helper: the Lord __is__ with them that uphold my soul. +5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth. +6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for __it__ __is__ good. +7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen __his__ __desire__ upon mine enemies. +:::SET CHAPTER 55 +> To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 GIVE ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. +2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; +3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. +4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. +5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. +6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! __for__ __then__ would I fly away, and be at rest. +7 Lo, __then__ would I wander far off, __and__ remain in the wilderness. Selah. +8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm __and__ tempest. +9 Destroy, O Lord, __and__ divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. +10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow __are__ in the midst of it. +11 Wickedness __is__ in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. +12 For __it__ __was__ not an enemy __that__ reproached me; then I could have borne __it:__ neither __was__ __it__ he that hated me __that__ did magnify __himself__ against me; then I would have hid myself from him: +13 But __it__ __was__ thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. +14 We took sweet counsel together, __and__ walked unto the house of God in company. +15 Let death seize upon them, __and__ let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness __is__ in their dwellings, __and__ among them. +16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall save me. +17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. +18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle __that__ __was__ against me: for there were many with me. +19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. +20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant. +21 __The__ __words__ of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war __was__ in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet __were__ they drawn swords. +22 Cast thy burden upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. +23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 56 +> To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. +1 BE merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. +2 Mine enemies would daily swallow __me__ up: for __they__ __be__ many that fight against me, O thou most High. +3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. +4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. +5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts __are__ against me for evil. +6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. +7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in __thine__ anger cast down the people, O God. +8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: __are__ __they__ not in thy book? +9 When I cry __unto__ __thee__, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God __is__ for me. +10 In God will I praise __his__ word: in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will I praise __his__ word. +11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. +12 Thy vows __are__ upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee. +13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: __wilt__ not __thou__ __deliver__ my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? +:::SET CHAPTER 57 +> To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. +1 BE merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until __these__ calamities be overpast. +2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth __all__ __things__ for me. +3 He shall send from heaven, and save me __from__ the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. +4 My soul __is__ among lions: __and__ I lie __even__ __among__ them that are set on fire, __even__ the sons of men, whose teeth __are__ spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. +5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; __let__ thy glory __be__ above all the earth. +6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen __themselves__. Selah. +7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. +8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I __myself__ will awake early. +9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations. +10 For thy mercy __is__ great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. +11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: __let__ thy glory __be__ above all the earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 58 +> To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. +1 DO ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? +2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. +3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. +4 Their poison __is__ like the poison of a serpent: __they__ __are__ like the deaf adder __that__ stoppeth her ear; +5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. +6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 Let them melt away as waters __which__ run continually: __when__ he bendeth __his__ __bow__ __to__ __shoot__ his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. +8 As a snail __which__ melteth, let __every__ __one__ __of__ __them__ pass away: __like__ the untimely birth of a woman, __that__ they may not see the sun. +9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in __his__ wrath. +10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. +11 So that a man shall say, Verily __there__ __is__ a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 59 +> To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. +1 DELIVER me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. +2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. +3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not __for__ my transgression, nor __for__ my sin, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 They run and prepare themselves without __my__ fault: awake to help me, and behold. +5 Thou therefore, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. +6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. +7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords __are__ in their lips: for who, __say__ __they__, doth hear? +8 But thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. +9 __Because__ __of__ his strength will I wait upon thee: for God __is__ my defence. +10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see __my__ __desire__ upon mine enemies. +11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield. +12 __For__ the sin of their mouth __and__ the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying __which__ they speak. +13 Consume __them__ in wrath, consume __them__, that they __may__ not __be:__ and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah. +14 And at evening let them return; __and__ let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. +15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. +16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. +17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God __is__ my defence, __and__ the God of my mercy. +:::SET CHAPTER 60 +> To the chief Musician upon Shushan-eduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. +1 O GOD, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. +2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. +3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. +4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. +5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save __with__ thy right hand, and hear me. +6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. +7 Gilead __is__ mine, and Manasseh __is__ mine; Ephraim also __is__ the strength of mine head; Judah __is__ my lawgiver; +8 Moab __is__ my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me. +9 Who will bring me __into__ the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? +10 __Wilt__ not thou, O God, __which__ hadst cast us off? and __thou__, O God, __which__ didst not go out with our armies? +11 Give us help from trouble: for vain __is__ the help of man. +12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he __it__ __is__ __that__ shall tread down our enemies. +:::SET CHAPTER 61 +> To the chief Musician upon Neginah, __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 HEAR my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. +2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock __that__ is higher than I. +3 For thou hast been a shelter for me, __and__ a strong tower from the enemy. +4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah. +5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given __me__ the heritage of those that fear thy name. +6 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: __and__ his years as many generations. +7 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, __which__ may preserve him. +8 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows. +:::SET CHAPTER 62 +> To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. +1 TRULY my soul waiteth upon God: from him __cometh__ my salvation. +2 He only __is__ my rock and my salvation; __he__ __is__ my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. +3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall __shall__ __ye__ __be__, __and__ __as__ a tottering fence. +4 They only consult to cast __him__ down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. +5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation __is__ from him. +6 He only __is__ my rock and my salvation: __he__ __is__ my defence; I shall not be moved. +7 In God __is__ my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, __and__ my refuge, __is__ in God. +8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God __is__ a refuge for us. Selah. +9 Surely men of low degree __are__ vanity, __and__ men of high degree __are__ a lie: to be laid in the balance, they __are__ altogether __lighter__ than vanity. +10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart __upon__ __them__. +11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power __belongeth__ unto God. +12 Also unto thee, O Lord, __belongeth__ mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work. +:::SET CHAPTER 63 +> A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. +1 O GOD, thou __art__ my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; +2 To see thy power and thy glory, so __as__ I have seen thee in the sanctuary. +3 Because thy lovingkindness __is__ better than life, my lips shall praise thee. +4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. +5 My soul shall be satisfied as __with__ marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise __thee__ with joyful lips: +6 When I remember thee upon my bed, __and__ meditate on thee in the __night__ watches. +7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. +8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. +9 But those __that__ seek my soul, to destroy __it__, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. +10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. +11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. +:::SET CHAPTER 64 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 HEAR my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. +2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: +3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, __and__ bend __their__ __bows__ __to__ __shoot__ their arrows, __even__ bitter words: +4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. +5 They encourage themselves __in__ an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? +6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward __thought__ of every one __of__ __them__, and the heart, __is__ deep. +7 But God shall shoot at them __with__ an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. +8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. +9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. +10 The righteous shall be glad in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. +:::SET CHAPTER 65 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm __and__ Song of David. +1 PRAISE waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed. +2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come. +3 Iniquities prevail against me: __as__ __for__ our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. +4 Blessed __is__ __the__ __man__ __whom__ thou choosest, and causest to approach __unto__ __thee__, __that__ he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, __even__ of thy holy temple. +5 __By__ terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; __who__ __art__ the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off __upon__ the sea: +6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; __being__ girded with power: +7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people. +8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice. +9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, __which__ is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. +10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. +11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. +12 They drop __upon__ the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. +13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing. +:::SET CHAPTER 66 +> To the chief Musician, A Song __or__ Psalm. +1 MAKE a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: +2 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious. +3 Say unto God, How terrible __art__ __thou__ __in__ thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. +4 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing __to__ thy name. Selah. +5 Come and see the works of God: __he__ __is__ terrible __in__ __his__ doing toward the children of men. +6 He turned the sea into dry __land:__ they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him. +7 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah. +8 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: +9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. +10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. +11 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. +12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy __place__. +13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, +14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. +15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah. +16 Come __and__ hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul. +17 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. +18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear __me:__ +19 __But__ verily God hath heard __me;__ he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. +20 Blessed __be__ God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me. +:::SET CHAPTER 67 +> To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm __or__ Song. +1 GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us; __and__ cause his face to shine upon us; Selah. +2 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. +3 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. +4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah. +5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. +6 __Then__ shall the earth yield her increase; __and__ God, __even__ our own God, shall bless us. +7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. +:::SET CHAPTER 68 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm __or__ Song of David. +1 LET God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. +2 As smoke is driven away, __so__ drive __them__ away: as wax melteth before the fire, __so__ let the wicked perish at the presence of God. +3 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice. +4 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him. +5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, __is__ God in his holy habitation. +6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry __land__. +7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: +8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: __even__ Sinai itself __was__ __moved__ at the presence of God, the God of Israel. +9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. +10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor. +11 The Lord gave the word: great __was__ the company of those that published __it__. +12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. +13 Though ye have lien among the pots, __yet__ __shall__ __ye__ __be__ __as__ the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. +14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was __white__ as snow in Salmon. +15 The hill of God __is__ __as__ the hill of Bashan; an high hill __as__ the hill of Bashan. +16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? __this__ __is__ the hill __which__ God desireth to dwell in; yea, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will dwell __in__ __it__ for ever. +17 The chariots of God __are__ twenty thousand, __even__ thousands of angels: the Lord __is__ among them, __as__ __in__ Sinai, in the holy __place__. +18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, __for__ the rebellious also, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God might dwell __among__ __them__. +19 Blessed __be__ the Lord, __who__ daily loadeth us __with__ __benefits__, __even__ the God of our salvation. Selah. +20 __He__ __that__ __is__ our God __is__ the God of salvation; and unto $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ the Lord __belong__ the issues from death. +21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, __and__ the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses. +22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring __my__ __people__ again from the depths of the sea: +23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of __thine__ enemies, __and__ the tongue of thy dogs in the same. +24 They have seen thy goings, O God; __even__ the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. +25 The singers went before, the players on instruments __followed__ after; among __them__ __were__ the damsels playing with timbrels. +26 Bless ye God in the congregations, __even__ the Lord, from the fountain of Israel. +27 There __is__ little Benjamin __with__ their ruler, the princes of Judah __and__ their council, the princes of Zebulun, __and__ the princes of Naphtali. +28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us. +29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee. +30 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, __till__ __every__ __one__ submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people __that__ delight in war. +31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. +32 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah: +33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, __which__ __were__ of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, __and__ __that__ a mighty voice. +34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency __is__ over Israel, and his strength __is__ in the clouds. +35 O God, __thou__ __art__ terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel __is__ he that giveth strength and power unto __his__ people. Blessed __be__ God. +:::SET CHAPTER 69 +> To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 SAVE me, O God; for the waters are come in unto __my__ soul. +2 I sink in deep mire, where __there__ __is__ no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. +3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. +4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, __being__ mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored __that__ which I took not away. +5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. +6 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. +7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. +8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children. +9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. +10 When I wept, __and__ __chastened__ my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. +11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. +12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I __was__ the song of the drunkards. +13 But as for me, my prayer __is__ unto thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __in__ an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. +14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. +15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. +16 Hear me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for thy lovingkindness __is__ good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. +17 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. +18 Draw nigh unto my soul, __and__ redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. +19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries __are__ all before thee. +20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked __for__ __some__ to take pity, but __there__ __was__ none; and for comforters, but I found none. +21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. +22 Let their table become a snare before them: and __that__ __which__ __should__ __have__ __been__ for __their__ welfare, __let__ __it__ __become__ a trap. +23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. +24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. +25 Let their habitation be desolate; __and__ let none dwell in their tents. +26 For they persecute __him__ whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. +27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. +28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. +29 But I __am__ poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. +30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. +31 __This__ also shall please the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ better than an ox __or__ bullock that hath horns and hoofs. +32 The humble shall see __this__, __and__ be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. +33 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. +34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein. +35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. +36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. +:::SET CHAPTER 70 +> To the chief Musician, __A__ __Psalm__ of David, to bring to remembrance. +1 __MAKE__ __haste__, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. +3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. +4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. +5 But I __am__ poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou __art__ my help and my deliverer; O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, make no tarrying. +:::SET CHAPTER 71 +1 IN thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. +2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. +3 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou __art__ my rock and my fortress. +4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. +5 For thou __art__ my hope, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: __thou__ __art__ my trust from my youth. +6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise __shall__ __be__ continually of thee. +7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou __art__ my strong refuge. +8 Let my mouth be filled __with__ thy praise __and__ __with__ thy honour all the day. +9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. +10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, +11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for __there__ __is__ none to deliver __him__. +12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help. +13 Let them be confounded __and__ consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered __with__ reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt. +14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more. +15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness __and__ thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers __thereof__. +16 I will go in the strength of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: I will make mention of thy righteousness, __even__ of thine only. +17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. +18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto __this__ generation, __and__ thy power to every one __that__ is to come. +19 Thy righteousness also, O God, __is__ very high, who hast done great things: O God, who __is__ like unto thee! +20 __Thou__, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. +21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. +22 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, __even__ thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. +23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed. +24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt. +:::SET CHAPTER 72 +> __A__ __Psalm__ for Solomon. +1 GIVE the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. +2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. +3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. +4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. +5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. +6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers __that__ water the earth. +7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. +8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. +9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. +10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. +11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. +12 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and __him__ that hath no helper. +13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. +14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight. +15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; __and__ daily shall he be praised. +16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and __they__ of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. +17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and __men__ shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed. +18 Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. +19 And blessed __be__ his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled __with__ his glory; Amen, and Amen. +20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. +:::SET CHAPTER 73 +> A Psalm of Asaph. +1 TRULY God __is__ good to Israel, __even__ to such as are of a clean heart. +2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. +3 For I was envious at the foolish, __when__ I saw the prosperity of the wicked. +4 For __there__ __are__ no bands in their death: but their strength __is__ firm. +5 They __are__ not in trouble __as__ __other__ men; neither are they plagued like __other__ men. +6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them __as__ a garment. +7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. +8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly __concerning__ oppression: they speak loftily. +9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. +10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full __cup__ are wrung out to them. +11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? +12 Behold, these __are__ the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase __in__ riches. +13 Verily I have cleansed my heart __in__ vain, and washed my hands in innocency. +14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. +15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend __against__ the generation of thy children. +16 When I thought to know this, it __was__ too painful for me; +17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; __then__ understood I their end. +18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. +19 How are they __brought__ into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. +20 As a dream when __one__ awaketh; __so__, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. +21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. +22 So foolish __was__ I, and ignorant: I was __as__ a beast before thee. +23 Nevertheless I __am__ continually with thee: thou hast holden __me__ by my right hand. +24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me __to__ glory. +25 Whom have I in heaven __but__ __thee?__ and __there__ __is__ none upon earth __that__ I desire beside thee. +26 My flesh and my heart faileth: __but__ God __is__ the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. +27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. +28 But __it__ __is__ good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, that I may declare all thy works. +:::SET CHAPTER 74 +> Maschil of Asaph. +1 O GOD, why hast thou cast __us__ off for ever? __why__ doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? +2 Remember thy congregation, __which__ thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, __which__ thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. +3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; __even__ all __that__ the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. +4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns __for__ signs. +5 __A__ __man__ was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. +6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. +7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled __by__ __casting__ __down__ the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. +8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. +9 We see not our signs: __there__ __is__ no more any prophet: neither __is__ __there__ among us any that knoweth how long. +10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? +11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck __it__ out of thy bosom. +12 For God __is__ my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. +13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. +14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, __and__ gavest him __to__ __be__ meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. +15 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers. +16 The day __is__ thine, the night also __is__ thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. +17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. +18 Remember this, __that__ the enemy hath reproached, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and __that__ the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. +19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude __of__ __the__ __wicked:__ forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. +20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. +21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. +22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. +23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually. +:::SET CHAPTER 75 +> To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm __or__ Song of Asaph. +1 UNTO thee, O God, do we give thanks, __unto__ __thee__ do we give thanks: for __that__ thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. +2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. +3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. +4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: +5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak __not__ __with__ a stiff neck. +6 For promotion __cometh__ neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. +7 But God __is__ the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. +8 For in the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __there__ __is__ a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring __them__ out, __and__ drink __them__. +9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. +10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; __but__ the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. +:::SET CHAPTER 76 +> To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm __or__ Song of Asaph. +1 IN Judah __is__ God known: his name __is__ great in Israel. +2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion. +3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. +4 Thou __art__ more glorious __and__ excellent than the mountains of prey. +5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands. +6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. +7 Thou, __even__ thou, __art__ to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? +8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, +9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. +10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. +11 Vow, and pay unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. +12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: __he__ __is__ terrible to the kings of the earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 77 +> To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. +1 I CRIED unto God with my voice, __even__ unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. +2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. +3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. +4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. +5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. +6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. +7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? +8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth __his__ promise fail for evermore? +9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. +10 And I said, This __is__ my infirmity: __but__ __I__ __will__ __remember__ the years of the right hand of the most High. +11 I will remember the works of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. +12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. +13 Thy way, O God, __is__ in the sanctuary: who __is__ __so__ great a God as __our__ God? +14 Thou __art__ the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. +15 Thou hast with __thine__ arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. +16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. +17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. +18 The voice of thy thunder __was__ in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. +19 Thy way __is__ in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. +20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. +:::SET CHAPTER 78 +> Maschil of Asaph. +1 GIVE ear, O my people, __to__ my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. +2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: +3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. +4 We will not hide __them__ from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. +5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: +6 That the generation to come might know __them__, __even__ the children __which__ should be born; __who__ should arise and declare __them__ to their children: +7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: +8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation __that__ set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. +9 The children of Ephraim, __being__ armed, __and__ carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. +10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; +11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. +12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, __in__ the field of Zoan. +13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. +14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. +15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave __them__ drink as __out__ __of__ the great depths. +16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. +17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. +18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. +19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? +20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? +21 Therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ heard __this__, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; +22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: +23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, +24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. +25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. +26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. +27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: +28 And he let __it__ fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. +29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; +30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat __was__ yet in their mouths, +31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen __men__ of Israel. +32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. +33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. +34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God. +35 And they remembered that God __was__ their rock, and the high God their redeemer. +36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. +37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. +38 But he, __being__ full of compassion, forgave __their__ iniquity, and destroyed __them__ not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. +39 For he remembered that they __were__ __but__ flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. +40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, __and__ grieve him in the desert! +41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. +42 They remembered not his hand, __nor__ the day when he delivered them from the enemy. +43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: +44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. +45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. +46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. +47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. +48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. +49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels __among__ __them__. +50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; +51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of __their__ strength in the tabernacles of Ham: +52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. +53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. +54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, __even__ __to__ this mountain, __which__ his right hand had purchased. +55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. +56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: +57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. +58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. +59 When God heard __this__, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: +60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent __which__ he placed among men; +61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. +62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. +63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. +64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. +65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, __and__ like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. +66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. +67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: +68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. +69 And he built his sanctuary like high __palaces__, like the earth which he hath established for ever. +70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: +71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. +72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. +:::SET CHAPTER 79 +> A Psalm of Asaph. +1 O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. +2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given __to__ __be__ meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. +3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and __there__ __was__ none to bury __them__. +4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. +5 How long, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? +6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name. +7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. +8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. +9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. +10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where __is__ their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight __by__ the revenging of the blood of thy servants __which__ __is__ shed. +11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die; +12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. +13 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations. +:::SET CHAPTER 80 +> To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, A Psalm of Asaph. +1 GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest __between__ the cherubims, shine forth. +2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come __and__ save us. +3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. +4 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? +5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. +6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. +7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. +8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. +9 Thou preparedst __room__ before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. +10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof __were__ __like__ the goodly cedars. +11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. +12 Why hast thou __then__ broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? +13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. +14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; +15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch __that__ thou madest strong for thyself. +16 __It__ __is__ burned with fire, __it__ __is__ cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. +17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man __whom__ thou madest strong for thyself. +18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. +19 Turn us again, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. +:::SET CHAPTER 81 +> To the chief Musician upon Gittith, __A__ __Psalm__ of Asaph. +1 SING aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. +2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. +3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. +4 For this __was__ a statute for Israel, __and__ a law of the God of Jacob. +5 This he ordained in Joseph __for__ a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: __where__ I heard a language __that__ I understood not. +6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. +7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. +8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; +9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. +10 I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. +11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. +12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: __and__ they walked in their own counsels. +13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, __and__ Israel had walked in my ways! +14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. +15 The haters of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. +16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 82 +> A Psalm of Asaph. +1 GOD standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. +2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. +3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. +4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid __them__ out of the hand of the wicked. +5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. +6 I have said, Ye __are__ gods; and all of you __are__ children of the most High. +7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. +8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. +:::SET CHAPTER 83 +> A Song __or__ Psalm of Asaph. +1 KEEP not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. +2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. +3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. +4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from __being__ a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. +5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: +6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; +7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; +8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. +9 Do unto them as __unto__ the Midianites; as __to__ Sisera, as __to__ Jabin, at the brook of Kison: +10 __Which__ perished at En-dor: they became __as__ dung for the earth. +11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: +12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. +13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. +14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; +15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. +16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: +18 That __men__ may know that thou, whose name alone __is__ JEHOVAH, __art__ the most high over all the earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 84 +> To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. +1 HOW amiable __are__ thy tabernacles, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts! +2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. +3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, __even__ thine altars, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, my King, and my God. +4 Blessed __are__ they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. +5 Blessed __is__ the man whose strength __is__ in thee; in whose heart __are__ the ways __of__ __them__. +6 __Who__ passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. +7 They go from strength to strength, __every__ __one__ __of__ __them__ in Zion appeareth before God. +8 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. +9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. +10 For a day in thy courts __is__ better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. +11 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God __is__ a sun and shield: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will give grace and glory: no good __thing__ will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. +12 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, blessed __is__ the man that trusteth in thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 85 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. +1 LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. +2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. +3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned __thyself__ from the fierceness of thine anger. +4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. +5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? +6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? +7 Shew us thy mercy, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and grant us thy salvation. +8 I will hear what God the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. +9 Surely his salvation __is__ nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. +10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed __each__ __other__. +11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. +12 Yea, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall give __that__ __which__ __is__ good; and our land shall yield her increase. +13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set __us__ in the way of his steps. +:::SET CHAPTER 86 +> A Prayer of David. +1 BOW down thine ear, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hear me: for I __am__ poor and needy. +2 Preserve my soul; for I __am__ holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. +3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. +4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. +5 For thou, Lord, __art__ good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. +6 Give ear, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. +7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. +8 Among the gods __there__ __is__ none like unto thee, O Lord; neither __are__ __there__ __any__ __works__ like unto thy works. +9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. +10 For thou __art__ great, and doest wondrous things: thou __art__ God alone. +11 Teach me thy way, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. +12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. +13 For great __is__ thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. +14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent __men__ have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. +15 But thou, O Lord, __art__ a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. +16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. +17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see __it__, and be ashamed: because thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hast holpen me, and comforted me. +:::SET CHAPTER 87 +> A Psalm __or__ Song for the sons of Korah. +1 HIS foundation __is__ in the holy mountains. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. +3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. +4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this __man__ was born there. +5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. +6 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall count, when he writeth up the people, __that__ this __man__ was born there. Selah. +7 As well the singers as the players on instruments __shall__ __be__ __there:__ all my springs __are__ in thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 88 +> A Song __or__ Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. +1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day __and__ night before thee: +2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; +3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. +4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man __that__ __hath__ no strength: +5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. +6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. +7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted __me__ with all thy waves. Selah. +8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: __I__ __am__ shut up, and I cannot come forth. +9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. +10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise __and__ praise thee? Selah. +11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? __or__ thy faithfulness in destruction? +12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? +13 But unto thee have I cried, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. +14 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, why castest thou off my soul? __why__ hidest thou thy face from me? +15 I __am__ afflicted and ready to die from __my__ youth up: __while__ I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. +16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. +17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. +18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, __and__ mine acquaintance into darkness. +:::SET CHAPTER 89 +> Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. +1 I WILL sing of the mercies of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. +2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. +3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, +4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah. +5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. +6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? __who__ among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all __them__ __that__ __are__ about him. +8 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts, who __is__ a strong $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? +9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. +10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm. +11 The heavens __are__ thine, the earth also __is__ thine: __as__ __for__ the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. +12 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. +13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, __and__ high is thy right hand. +14 Justice and judgment __are__ the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. +15 Blessed __is__ the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the light of thy countenance. +16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. +17 For thou __art__ the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted. +18 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ our defence; and the Holy One of Israel __is__ our king. +19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon __one__ __that__ __is__ mighty; I have exalted __one__ chosen out of the people. +20 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: +21 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. +22 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. +23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. +24 But my faithfulness and my mercy __shall__ __be__ with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. +25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. +26 He shall cry unto me, Thou __art__ my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. +27 Also I will make him __my__ firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. +28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. +29 His seed also will I make __to__ __endure__ for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. +30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; +31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; +32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. +33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. +34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. +35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. +36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. +37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and __as__ a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. +38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. +39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown __by__ __casting__ __it__ to the ground. +40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. +41 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours. +42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. +43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle. +44 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. +45 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah. +46 How long, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? +47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? +48 What man __is__ __he__ __that__ liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. +49 Lord, where __are__ thy former lovingkindnesses, __which__ thou swarest unto David in thy truth? +50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; __how__ I do bear in my bosom __the__ __reproach__ __of__ all the mighty people; +51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. +52 Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for evermore. Amen, and Amen. +:::SET CHAPTER 90 +> A Prayer of Moses the man of God. +1 LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. +2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou __art__ God. +3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. +4 For a thousand years in thy sight __are__ __but__ as yesterday when it is past, and __as__ a watch in the night. +5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are __as__ a sleep: in the morning __they__ __are__ like grass __which__ groweth up. +6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. +7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. +8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret __sins__ in the light of thy countenance. +9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale __that__ __is__ __told__. +10 The days of our years __are__ threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength __they__ __be__ fourscore years, yet __is__ their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. +11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, __so__ __is__ thy wrath. +12 So teach __us__ to number our days, that we may apply __our__ hearts unto wisdom. +13 Return, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. +14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. +15 Make us glad according to the days __wherein__ thou hast afflicted us, __and__ the years __wherein__ we have seen evil. +16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. +17 And let the beauty of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. +:::SET CHAPTER 91 +1 HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. +2 I will say of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __He__ __is__ my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. +3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, __and__ from the noisome pestilence. +4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth __shall__ __be__ __thy__ shield and buckler. +5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; __nor__ for the arrow __that__ flieth by day; +6 __Nor__ for the pestilence __that__ walketh in darkness; __nor__ for the destruction __that__ wasteth at noonday. +7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; __but__ it shall not come nigh thee. +8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. +9 Because thou hast made the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __which__ __is__ my refuge, __even__ the most High, thy habitation; +10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. +11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. +12 They shall bear thee up in __their__ hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. +13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. +14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. +15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I __will__ __be__ with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. +16 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. +:::SET CHAPTER 92 +> A Psalm __or__ Song for the sabbath day. +1 __IT__ __is__ __a__ good __thing__ to give thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: +2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, +3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. +4 For thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. +5 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, how great are thy works! __and__ thy thoughts are very deep. +6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. +7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; __it__ __is__ that they shall be destroyed for ever: +8 But thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __art__ __most__ high for evermore. +9 For, lo, thine enemies, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. +10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like __the__ __horn__ __of__ an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. +11 Mine eye also shall see __my__ __desire__ on mine enemies, __and__ mine ears shall hear __my__ __desire__ of the wicked that rise up against me. +12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. +13 Those that be planted in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall flourish in the courts of our God. +14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; +15 To shew that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ upright: __he__ __is__ my rock, and __there__ __is__ no unrighteousness in him. +:::SET CHAPTER 93 +1 THE $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is clothed with strength, __wherewith__ he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. +2 Thy throne __is__ established of old: thou __art__ from everlasting. +3 The floods have lifted up, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. +4 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ on high __is__ mightier than the noise of many waters, __yea__, __than__ the mighty waves of the sea. +5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 94 +1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. +2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. +3 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? +4 __How__ __long__ shall they utter __and__ speak hard things? __and__ all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? +5 They break in pieces thy people, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and afflict thine heritage. +6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. +7 Yet they say, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard __it__. +8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and __ye__ fools, when will ye be wise? +9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? +10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, __shall__ __not__ __he__ __know?__ +11 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ knoweth the thoughts of man, that they __are__ vanity. +12 Blessed __is__ the man whom thou chastenest, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and teachest him out of thy law; +13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. +14 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. +15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. +16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? __or__ who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? +17 Unless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __had__ __been__ my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. +18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, held me up. +19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. +20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? +21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. +22 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is my defence; and my God __is__ the rock of my refuge. +23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; __yea__, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God shall cut them off. +:::SET CHAPTER 95 +1 O COME, let us sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. +2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. +3 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ a great God, and a great King above all gods. +4 In his hand __are__ the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills __is__ his also. +5 The sea __is__ his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry __land__. +6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our maker. +7 For he __is__ our God; and we __are__ the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, +8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, __and__ as __in__ the day of temptation in the wilderness: +9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. +10 Forty years long was I grieved with __this__ generation, and said, It __is__ a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: +11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. +:::SET CHAPTER 96 +1 O SING unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ a new song: sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all the earth. +2 Sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day. +3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people. +4 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ great, and greatly to be praised: he __is__ to be feared above all gods. +5 For all the gods of the nations __are__ idols: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ made the heavens. +6 Honour and majesty __are__ before him: strength and beauty __are__ in his sanctuary. +7 Give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ glory and strength. +8 Give unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the glory __due__ __unto__ his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. +9 O worship the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth. +10 Say among the heathen __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. +11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. +12 Let the field be joyful, and all that __is__ therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice +13 Before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth. +:::SET CHAPTER 97 +1 THE $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad __thereof__. +2 Clouds and darkness __are__ round about him: righteousness and judgment __are__ the habitation of his throne. +3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. +4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. +5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. +6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory. +7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all __ye__ gods. +8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 For thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __art__ high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. +10 Ye that love the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. +11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. +12 Rejoice in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. +:::SET CHAPTER 98 +> A Psalm. +1 O SING unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. +3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. +4 Make a joyful noise unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. +5 Sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. +6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the King. +7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. +8 Let the floods clap __their__ hands: let the hills be joyful together +9 Before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity. +:::SET CHAPTER 99 +1 THE $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth __between__ the cherubims; let the earth be moved. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ great in Zion; and he __is__ high above all the people. +3 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; __for__ it __is__ holy. +4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. +5 Exalt ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, and worship at his footstool; __for__ he __is__ holy. +6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he answered them. +7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance __that__ he gave them. +8 Thou answeredst them, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. +9 Exalt the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God __is__ holy. +:::SET CHAPTER 100 +> A Psalm of praise. +1 MAKE a joyful noise unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all ye lands. +2 Serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with gladness: come before his presence with singing. +3 Know ye that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ he __is__ God: __it__ __is__ he __that__ hath made us, and not we ourselves; __we__ __are__ his people, and the sheep of his pasture. +4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, __and__ into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, __and__ bless his name. +5 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ good; his mercy __is__ everlasting; and his truth __endureth__ to all generations. +:::SET CHAPTER 101 +> A Psalm of David. +1 I WILL sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, will I sing. +2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. +3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; __it__ shall not cleave to me. +4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked __person__. +5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. +6 Mine eyes __shall__ __be__ upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. +7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. +8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 102 +> A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the L[ORD]{.calibre6}[.]{.calibre6} +1 HEAR my prayer, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and let my cry come unto thee. +2 Hide not thy face from me in the day __when__ I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day __when__ I call answer me speedily. +3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. +4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. +5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. +6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. +7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. +8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; __and__ they that are mad against me are sworn against me. +9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, +10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down. +11 My days __are__ like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass. +12 But thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations. +13 Thou shalt arise, __and__ have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come. +14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof. +15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. +16 When the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. +17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. +18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ behold the earth; +20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death; +21 To declare the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; +22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. +24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years __are__ throughout all generations. +25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens __are__ the work of thy hands. +26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: +27 But thou __art__ the same, and thy years shall have no end. +28 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 103 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 BLESS the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O my soul: and all that is within me, __bless__ his holy name. +2 Bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: +3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; +4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; +5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good __things;__ __so__ __that__ thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. +6 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. +7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel. +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. +9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep __his__ __anger__ for ever. +10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. +11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, __so__ great is his mercy toward them that fear him. +12 As far as the east is from the west, __so__ far hath he removed our transgressions from us. +13 Like as a father pitieth __his__ children, __so__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ pitieth them that fear him. +14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we __are__ dust. +15 __As__ __for__ man, his days __are__ as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. +16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. +17 But the mercy of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; +18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. +19 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. +20 Bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. +21 Bless ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all __ye__ his hosts; __ye__ ministers of his, that do his pleasure. +22 Bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O my soul. +:::SET CHAPTER 104 +1 BLESS the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O my soul. O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. +2 Who coverest __thyself__ with light as __with__ a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: +3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: +4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: +5 __Who__ laid the foundations of the earth, __that__ it should not be removed for ever. +6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as __with__ a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. +7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. +8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. +9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth. +10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, __which__ run among the hills. +11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. +12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, __which__ sing among the branches. +13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. +14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; +15 And wine __that__ maketh glad the heart of man, __and__ oil to make __his__ face to shine, and bread __which__ strengtheneth man's heart. +16 The trees of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ are full __of__ __sap;__ the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; +17 Where the birds make their nests: __as__ __for__ the stork, the fir trees __are__ her house. +18 The high hills __are__ a refuge for the wild goats; __and__ the rocks for the conies. +19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. +20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep __forth__. +21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. +22 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. +23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. +24 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. +25 __So__ __is__ this great and wide sea, wherein __are__ things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. +26 There go the ships: __there__ __is__ that leviathan, __whom__ thou hast made to play therein. +27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give __them__ their meat in due season. +28 __That__ thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. +29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. +30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth. +31 The glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall endure for ever: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall rejoice in his works. +32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke. +33 I will sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. +34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O my soul. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 105 +1 O GIVE thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. +2 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. +3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 Seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his strength: seek his face evermore. +5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth; +6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen. +7 He __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God: his judgments __are__ in all the earth. +8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word __which__ he commanded to a thousand generations. +9 Which __covenant__ he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; +10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, __and__ to Israel __for__ an everlasting covenant: +11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: +12 When they were __but__ a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. +13 When they went from one nation to another, from __one__ kingdom to another people; +14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; +15 __Saying__, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. +16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. +17 He sent a man before them, __even__ Joseph, __who__ was sold for a servant: +18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: +19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ tried him. +20 The king sent and loosed him; __even__ the ruler of the people, and let him go free. +21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance: +22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom. +23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. +24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies. +25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants. +26 He sent Moses his servant; __and__ Aaron whom he had chosen. +27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. +28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. +29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. +30 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings. +31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, __and__ lice in all their coasts. +32 He gave them hail for rain, __and__ flaming fire in their land. +33 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts. +34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number, +35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. +36 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength. +37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and __there__ __was__ not one feeble __person__ among their tribes. +38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them. +39 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night. +40 __The__ __people__ asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. +41 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places __like__ a river. +42 For he remembered his holy promise, __and__ Abraham his servant. +43 And he brought forth his people with joy, __and__ his chosen with gladness: +44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people; +45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 106 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. O give thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for __he__ __is__ good: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? __who__ can shew forth all his praise? +3 Blessed __are__ they that keep judgment, __and__ he that doeth righteousness at all times. +4 Remember me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with the favour __that__ __thou__ __bearest__ __unto__ thy people: O visit me with thy salvation; +5 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance. +6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. +7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked __him__ at the sea, __even__ at the Red sea. +8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. +9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness. +10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated __them__, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. +11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left. +12 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. +13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: +14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. +15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul. +16 They envied Moses also in the camp, __and__ Aaron the saint of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. +18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. +19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. +20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. +21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt; +22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, __and__ terrible things by the Red sea. +23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy __them__. +24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: +25 But murmured in their tents, __and__ hearkened not unto the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: +27 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. +28 They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. +29 Thus they provoked __him__ to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them. +30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and __so__ the plague was stayed. +31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore. +32 They angered __him__ also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: +33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. +34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded them: +35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. +36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. +37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, +38 And shed innocent blood, __even__ the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. +39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. +40 Therefore was the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. +41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them. +42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. +43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked __him__ with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity. +44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry: +45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. +46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives. +47 Save us, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, __and__ to triumph in thy praise. +48 Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 107 +1 O GIVE thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for __he__ __is__ good: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +2 Let the redeemed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ say __so__, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; +3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south. +4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. +5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. +6 Then they cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in their trouble, __and__ he delivered them out of their distresses. +7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation. +8 Oh that __men__ would praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __for__ his goodness, and __for__ his wonderful works to the children of men! +9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. +10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, __being__ bound in affliction and iron; +11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High: +12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and __there__ __was__ none to help. +13 Then they cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in their trouble, __and__ he saved them out of their distresses. +14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. +15 Oh that __men__ would praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __for__ his goodness, and __for__ his wonderful works to the children of men! +16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. +17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. +18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death. +19 Then they cry unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in their trouble, __and__ he saveth them out of their distresses. +20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered __them__ from their destructions. +21 Oh that __men__ would praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __for__ his goodness, and __for__ his wonderful works to the children of men! +22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing. +23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; +24 These see the works of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his wonders in the deep. +25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. +26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. +27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. +28 Then they cry unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. +29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. +30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. +31 Oh that __men__ would praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __for__ his goodness, and __for__ his wonderful works to the children of men! +32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. +33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; +34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. +35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. +36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation; +37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase. +38 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. +39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow. +40 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, __where__ __there__ __is__ no way. +41 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh __him__ families like a flock. +42 The righteous shall see __it__, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. +43 Whoso __is__ wise, and will observe these __things__, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 108 +> A Song __or__ Psalm of David. +1 O GOD, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. +2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I __myself__ will awake early. +3 I will praise thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. +4 For thy mercy __is__ great above the heavens: and thy truth __reacheth__ unto the clouds. +5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth; +6 That thy beloved may be delivered: save __with__ thy right hand, and answer me. +7 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth. +8 Gilead __is__ mine; Manasseh __is__ mine; Ephraim also __is__ the strength of mine head; Judah __is__ my lawgiver; +9 Moab __is__ my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph. +10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? +11 __Wilt__ not __thou__, O God, __who__ hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts? +12 Give us help from trouble: for vain __is__ the help of man. +13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he __it__ __is__ __that__ shall tread down our enemies. +:::SET CHAPTER 109 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 HOLD not thy peace, O God of my praise; +2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. +3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. +4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I __give__ __myself__ __unto__ prayer. +5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. +6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. +7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. +8 Let his days be few; __and__ let another take his office. +9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. +10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek __their__ __bread__ also out of their desolate places. +11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. +12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. +13 Let his posterity be cut off; __and__ in the generation following let their name be blotted out. +14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. +15 Let them be before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. +16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. +17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. +18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. +19 Let it be unto him as the garment __which__ covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. +20 __Let__ this __be__ the reward of mine adversaries from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and of them that speak evil against my soul. +21 But do thou for me, O $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy __is__ good, deliver thou me. +22 For I __am__ poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. +23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. +24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. +25 I became also a reproach unto them: __when__ they looked upon me they shaked their heads. +26 Help me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God: O save me according to thy mercy: +27 That they may know that this __is__ thy hand; __that__ thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hast done it. +28 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice. +29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. +30 I will greatly praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude. +31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save __him__ from those that condemn his soul. +:::SET CHAPTER 110 +> A Psalm of David. +1 THE $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. +3 Thy people __shall__ __be__ willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. +4 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou __art__ a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. +5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. +6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill __the__ __places__ with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries. +7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head. +:::SET CHAPTER 111 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. I will praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with __my__ whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and __in__ the congregation. +2 The works of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __are__ great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. +3 His work __is__ honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever. +4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ gracious and full of compassion. +5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant. +6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. +7 The works of his hands __are__ verity and judgment; all his commandments __are__ sure. +8 They stand fast for ever and ever, __and__ __are__ done in truth and uprightness. +9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend __is__ his name. +10 The fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do __his__ __commandments:__ his praise endureth for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 112 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Blessed __is__ the man __that__ feareth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __that__ delighteth greatly in his commandments. +2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. +3 Wealth and riches __shall__ __be__ in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever. +4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: __he__ __is__ gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. +5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion. +6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. +7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 His heart __is__ established, he shall not be afraid, until he see __his__ __desire__ upon his enemies. +9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour. +10 The wicked shall see __it__, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish. +:::SET CHAPTER 113 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Praise, O ye servants of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, praise the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Blessed be the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from this time forth and for evermore. +3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s name __is__ to be praised. +4 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ high above all nations, __and__ his glory above the heavens. +5 Who __is__ like unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, who dwelleth on high, +6 Who humbleth __himself__ to behold __the__ __things__ __that__ __are__ in heaven, and in the earth! +7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, __and__ lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; +8 That he may set __him__ with princes, __even__ with the princes of his people. +9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, __and__ __to__ __be__ a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 114 +1 WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; +2 Judah was his sanctuary, __and__ Israel his dominion. +3 The sea saw __it__, and fled: Jordan was driven back. +4 The mountains skipped like rams, __and__ the little hills like lambs. +5 What __ailed__ thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, __that__ thou wast driven back? +6 Ye mountains, __that__ ye skipped like rams; __and__ ye little hills, like lambs? +7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; +8 Which turned the rock __into__ a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters. +:::SET CHAPTER 115 +1 NOT unto us, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, __and__ for thy truth's sake. +2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where __is__ now their God? +3 But our God __is__ in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. +4 Their idols __are__ silver and gold, the work of men's hands. +5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: +6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: +7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. +8 They that make them are like unto them; __so__ __is__ every one that trusteth in them. +9 O Israel, trust thou in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he __is__ their help and their shield. +10 O house of Aaron, trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he __is__ their help and their shield. +11 Ye that fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he __is__ their help and their shield. +12 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath been mindful of us: he will bless __us;__ he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. +13 He will bless them that fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __both__ small and great. +14 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall increase you more and more, you and your children. +15 Ye __are__ blessed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which made heaven and earth. +16 The heaven, __even__ the heavens, __are__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. +17 The dead praise not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, neither any that go down into silence. +18 But we will bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 116 +1 I LOVE the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because he hath heard my voice __and__ my supplications. +2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon __him__ as long as I live. +3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. +4 Then called I upon the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. +5 Gracious __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and righteous; yea, our God __is__ merciful. +6 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. +7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath dealt bountifully with thee. +8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, __and__ my feet from falling. +9 I will walk before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the land of the living. +10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: +11 I said in my haste, All men __are__ liars. +12 What shall I render unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __for__ all his benefits toward me? +13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 I will pay my vows unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ now in the presence of all his people. +15 Precious in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ the death of his saints. +16 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, truly I __am__ thy servant; I __am__ thy servant, __and__ the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. +17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 I will pay my vows unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ now in the presence of all his people, +19 In the courts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 117 +1 O PRAISE the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. +2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __endureth__ for ever. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 118 +1 O GIVE thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for __he__ __is__ good: because his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +4 Let them now that fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ say, that his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +5 I called upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in distress: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered me, __and__ __set__ __me__ in a large place. +6 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see __my__ __desire__ upon them that hate me. +8 __It__ __is__ better to trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ than to put confidence in man. +9 __It__ __is__ better to trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ than to put confidence in princes. +10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will I destroy them. +11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ I will destroy them. +12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ I will destroy them. +13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ helped me. +14 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ my strength and song, and is become my salvation. +15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation __is__ in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doeth valiantly. +16 The right hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is exalted: the right hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doeth valiantly. +17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. +19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, __and__ I will praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +20 This gate of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, into which the righteous shall enter. +21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. +22 The stone __which__ the builders refused is become the head __stone__ of the corner. +23 This is the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s doing; it __is__ marvellous in our eyes. +24 This __is__ the day __which__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. +25 Save now, I beseech thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. +26 Blessed __be__ he that cometh in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: we have blessed you out of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 God __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, __even__ unto the horns of the altar. +28 Thou __art__ my God, and I will praise thee: __thou__ __art__ my God, I will exalt thee. +29 O give thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for __he__ __is__ good: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 119 +**ALEPH.** +1 BLESSED __are__ the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Blessed __are__ they that keep his testimonies, __and__ __that__ seek him with the whole heart. +3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. +4 Thou hast commanded __us__ to keep thy precepts diligently. +5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! +6 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. +7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. +8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. +**BETH.** +9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed __thereto__ according to thy word. +10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. +11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. +12 Blessed __art__ thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: teach me thy statutes. +13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. +14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as __much__ __as__ in all riches. +15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. +16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. +**GIMEL.** +17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, __that__ I may live, and keep thy word. +18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. +19 I __am__ a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. +20 My soul breaketh for the longing __that__ __it__ __hath__ unto thy judgments at all times. +21 Thou hast rebuked the proud __that__ __are__ cursed, which do err from thy commandments. +22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. +23 Princes also did sit __and__ speak against me: __but__ thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. +24 Thy testimonies also __are__ my delight __and__ my counsellers. +**DALETH.** +25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word. +26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. +27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. +28 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. +29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. +30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid __before__ __me__. +31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, put me not to shame. +32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. +**HE.** +33 Teach me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it __unto__ the end. +34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with __my__ whole heart. +35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. +36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. +37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; __and__ quicken thou me in thy way. +38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who __is__ __devoted__ to thy fear. +39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments __are__ good. +40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. +**VAU.** +41 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ thy salvation, according to thy word. +42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. +43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments. +44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. +45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. +46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. +47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. +48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes. +**ZAIN.** +49 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. +50 This __is__ my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. +51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: __yet__ have I not declined from thy law. +52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and have comforted myself. +53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. +54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. +55 I have remembered thy name, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the night, and have kept thy law. +56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts. +**CHETH.** +57 __Thou__ __art__ my portion, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I have said that I would keep thy words. +58 I intreated thy favour with __my__ whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word. +59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. +60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. +61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: __but__ I have not forgotten thy law. +62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. +63 I __am__ a companion of all __them__ that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. +64 The earth, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes. +**TETH.** +65 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according unto thy word. +66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. +67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. +68 Thou __art__ good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. +69 The proud have forged a lie against me: __but__ I will keep thy precepts with __my__ whole heart. +70 Their heart is as fat as grease; __but__ I delight in thy law. +71 __It__ __is__ good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. +72 The law of thy mouth __is__ better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. +**JOD.** +73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. +74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word. +75 I know, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that thy judgments __are__ right, and __that__ thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. +76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. +77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law __is__ my delight. +78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: __but__ I will meditate in thy precepts. +79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies. +80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed. +**CAPH.** +81 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: __but__ I hope in thy word. +82 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? +83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; __yet__ do I not forget thy statutes. +84 How many __are__ the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? +85 The proud have digged pits for me, which __are__ not after thy law. +86 All thy commandments __are__ faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. +87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. +88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth. +**LAMED.** +89 For ever, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thy word is settled in heaven. +90 Thy faithfulness __is__ unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. +91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all __are__ thy servants. +92 Unless thy law __had__ __been__ my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. +93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. +94 I __am__ thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. +95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: __but__ I will consider thy testimonies. +96 I have seen an end of all perfection: __but__ thy commandment __is__ exceeding broad. +**MEM.** +97 O how love I thy law! it __is__ my meditation all the day. +98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they __are__ ever with me. +99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies __are__ my meditation. +100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. +101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. +102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. +103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! __yea__, __sweeter__ than honey to my mouth! +104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. +**NUN.** +105 Thy word __is__ a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. +106 I have sworn, and I will perform __it__, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. +107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according unto thy word. +108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and teach me thy judgments. +109 My soul __is__ continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. +110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. +111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they __are__ the rejoicing of my heart. +112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, __even__ __unto__ the end. +**SAMECH.** +113 I hate __vain__ thoughts: but thy law do I love. +114 Thou __art__ my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. +115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God. +116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope. +117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. +118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit __is__ falsehood. +119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth __like__ dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. +120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. +**AIN.** +121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors. +122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. +123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. +124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes. +125 I __am__ thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. +126 __It__ __is__ time for __thee__, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to work: __for__ they have made void thy law. +127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. +128 Therefore I esteem all __thy__ precepts __concerning__ all __things__ __to__ __be__ right; __and__ I hate every false way. +**PE.** +129 Thy testimonies __are__ wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. +130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. +131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments. +132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. +133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. +134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts. +135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes. +136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. +**TZADDI.** +137 Righteous __art__ thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and upright __are__ thy judgments. +138 Thy testimonies __that__ thou hast commanded __are__ righteous and very faithful. +139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. +140 Thy word __is__ very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. +141 I __am__ small and despised: __yet__ do not I forget thy precepts. +142 Thy righteousness __is__ an everlasting righteousness, and thy law __is__ the truth. +143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: __yet__ thy commandments __are__ my delights. +144 The righteousness of thy testimonies __is__ everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. +**KOPH.** +145 I cried with __my__ whole heart; hear me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I will keep thy statutes. +146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. +147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. +148 Mine eyes prevent the __night__ watches, that I might meditate in thy word. +149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, quicken me according to thy judgment. +150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law. +151 Thou __art__ near, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and all thy commandments __are__ truth. +152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. +**RESH.** +153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. +154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. +155 Salvation __is__ far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. +156 Great __are__ thy tender mercies, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: quicken me according to thy judgments. +157 Many __are__ my persecutors and mine enemies; __yet__ do I not decline from thy testimonies. +158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. +159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to thy lovingkindness. +160 Thy word __is__ true __from__ the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments __endureth__ for ever. +**SCHIN.** +161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word. +162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. +163 I hate and abhor lying: __but__ thy law do I love. +164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments. +165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. +166 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. +167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. +168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways __are__ before thee. +**TAU.** +169 Let my cry come near before thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: give me understanding according to thy word. +170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. +171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes. +172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments __are__ righteousness. +173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts. +174 I have longed for thy salvation, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and thy law __is__ my delight. +175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me. +176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments. +:::SET CHAPTER 120 +> A Song of degrees. +1 IN my distress I cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he heard me. +2 Deliver my soul, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from lying lips, __and__ from a deceitful tongue. +3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? +4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. +5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, __that__ I dwell in the tents of Kedar! +6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace. +7 I __am__ __for__ peace: but when I speak, they __are__ for war. +:::SET CHAPTER 121 +> A Song of degrees. +1 I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. +2 My help __cometh__ from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which made heaven and earth. +3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. +4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. +5 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ thy keeper: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ thy shade upon thy right hand. +6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. +:::SET CHAPTER 122 +> A Song of degrees of David. +1 I WAS glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. +3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: +4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. +6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. +7 Peace be within thy walls, __and__ prosperity within thy palaces. +8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace __be__ within thee. +9 Because of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God I will seek thy good. +:::SET CHAPTER 123 +> A Song of degrees. +1 UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. +2 Behold, as the eyes of servants __look__ unto the hand of their masters, __and__ as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes __wait__ upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, until that he have mercy upon us. +3 Have mercy upon us, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. +4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, __and__ with the contempt of the proud. +:::SET CHAPTER 124 +> A Song of degrees of David. +1 IF __it__ __had__ not __been__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ who was on our side, now may Israel say; +2 If __it__ __had__ not __been__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ who was on our side, when men rose up against us: +3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: +4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: +5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. +6 Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who hath not given us __as__ a prey to their teeth. +7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. +8 Our help __is__ in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who made heaven and earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 125 +> A Song of degrees. +1 THEY that trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __shall__ __be__ as mount Zion, __which__ cannot be removed, __but__ abideth for ever. +2 __As__ the mountains __are__ round about Jerusalem, so the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ round about his people from henceforth even for ever. +3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity. +4 Do good, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, unto __those__ __that__ __be__ good, and to __them__ __that__ __are__ upright in their hearts. +5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: __but__ peace __shall__ __be__ upon Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 126 +> A Song of degrees. +1 WHEN the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. +2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath done great things for them. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath done great things for us; __whereof__ we are glad. +4 Turn again our captivity, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as the streams in the south. +5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. +6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves __with__ __him__. +:::SET CHAPTER 127 +> A Song of degrees for Solomon. +1 EXCEPT the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ keep the city, the watchman waketh __but__ in vain. +2 __It__ __is__ vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: __for__ so he giveth his beloved sleep. +3 Lo, children __are__ an heritage of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __and__ the fruit of the womb __is__ __his__ reward. +4 As arrows __are__ in the hand of a mighty man; so __are__ children of the youth. +5 Happy __is__ the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. +:::SET CHAPTER 128 +> A Song of degrees. +1 BLESSED __is__ every one that feareth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; that walketh in his ways. +2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy __shalt__ thou __be__, and __it__ __shall__ __be__ well with thee. +3 Thy wife __shall__ __be__ as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. +4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. +6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, __and__ peace upon Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 129 +> A Song of degrees. +1 MANY a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: +2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. +3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. +4 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. +5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. +6 Let them be as the grass __upon__ the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: +7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. +8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __be__ upon you: we bless you in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 130 +> A Song of degrees. +1 OUT of the depths have I cried unto thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. +3 If thou, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? +4 But __there__ __is__ forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. +5 I wait for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. +6 My soul __waiteth__ for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: __I__ __say__, __more__ __than__ they that watch for the morning. +7 Let Israel hope in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __there__ __is__ mercy, and with him __is__ plenteous redemption. +8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. +:::SET CHAPTER 131 +> A Song of degrees of David. +1 LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. +2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul __is__ even as a weaned child. +3 Let Israel hope in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from henceforth and for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 132 +> A Song of degrees. +1 LORD, remember David, __and__ all his afflictions: +2 How he sware unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ vowed unto the mighty __God__ of Jacob; +3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; +4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, __or__ slumber to mine eyelids, +5 Until I find out a place for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, an habitation for the mighty __God__ of Jacob. +6 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. +7 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool. +8 Arise, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength. +9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy. +10 For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed. +11 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sworn __in__ truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne. +12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore. +13 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath chosen Zion; he hath desired __it__ for his habitation. +14 This __is__ my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it. +15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. +16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. +17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. +18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish. +:::SET CHAPTER 133 +> A Song of degrees of David. +1 BEHOLD, how good and how pleasant __it__ __is__ for brethren to dwell together in unity! +2 __It__ __is__ like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, __even__ Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; +3 As the dew of Hermon, __and__ __as__ __the__ __dew__ that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded the blessing, __even__ life for evermore. +:::SET CHAPTER 134 +> A Song of degrees. +1 BEHOLD, bless ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all __ye__ servants of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which by night stand in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Lift up your hands __in__ the sanctuary, and bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion. +:::SET CHAPTER 135 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Praise ye the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; praise __him__, O ye servants of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Ye that stand in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the courts of the house of our God, +3 Praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ good: sing praises unto his name; for __it__ __is__ pleasant. +4 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath chosen Jacob unto himself, __and__ Israel for his peculiar treasure. +5 For I know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ great, and __that__ our Lord __is__ above all gods. +6 Whatsoever the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ pleased, __that__ did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places. +7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries. +8 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast. +9 __Who__ sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants. +10 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings; +11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan: +12 And gave their land __for__ an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people. +13 Thy name, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __endureth__ for ever; __and__ thy memorial, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, throughout all generations. +14 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants. +15 The idols of the heathen __are__ silver and gold, the work of men's hands. +16 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; +17 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there __any__ breath in their mouths. +18 They that make them are like unto them: __so__ __is__ every one that trusteth in them. +19 Bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O house of Israel: bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O house of Aaron: +20 Bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O house of Levi: ye that fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, bless the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 Blessed be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 136 +1 O GIVE thanks unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for __he__ __is__ good: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +2 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +4 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +12 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +19 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +20 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +21 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +22 __Even__ an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: +24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +25 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy __endureth__ for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 137 +1 BY the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. +2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. +3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us __required__ __of__ __us__ mirth, __saying__, Sing us __one__ of the songs of Zion. +4 How shall we sing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s song in a strange land? +5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget __her__ __cunning__. +6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. +7 Remember, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase __it__, rase __it__, __even__ to the foundation thereof. +8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy __shall__ __he__ __be__, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. +9 Happy __shall__ __he__ __be__, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. +:::SET CHAPTER 138 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 I WILL praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. +2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. +3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, __and__ strengthenedst me __with__ strength in my soul. +4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when they hear the words of thy mouth. +5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for great __is__ the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 Though the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __be__ high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off. +7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will perfect __that__ __which__ concerneth me: thy mercy, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __endureth__ for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. +:::SET CHAPTER 139 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known __me__. +2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. +3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted __with__ all my ways. +4 For __there__ __is__ not a word in my tongue, __but__, lo, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou knowest it altogether. +5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. +6 __Such__ knowledge __is__ too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot __attain__ unto it. +7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? +8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou __art__ there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou __art__ __there__. +9 __If__ I take the wings of the morning, __and__ dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; +10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. +11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. +12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light __are__ both alike __to__ __thee__. +13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. +14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully __and__ wonderfully made: marvellous __are__ thy works; and __that__ my soul knoweth right well. +15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, __and__ curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. +16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all __my__ __members__ were written, __which__ in continuance were fashioned, when __as__ __yet__ __there__ __was__ none of them. +17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! +18 __If__ I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. +19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. +20 For they speak against thee wickedly, __and__ thine enemies take __thy__ __name__ in vain. +21 Do not I hate them, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? +22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. +23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: +24 And see if __there__ __be__ __any__ wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. +:::SET CHAPTER 140 +> To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. +1 DELIVER me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; +2 Which imagine mischiefs in __their__ heart; continually are they gathered together __for__ war. +3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison __is__ under their lips. Selah. +4 Keep me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings. +5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah. +6 I said unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Thou __art__ my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 O $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. +8 Grant not, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; __lest__ they exalt themselves. Selah. +9 __As__ __for__ the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. +10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. +11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow __him__. +12 I know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will maintain the cause of the afflicted, __and__ the right of the poor. +13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence. +:::SET CHAPTER 141 +> A Psalm of David. +1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. +2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee __as__ incense; __and__ the lifting up of my hands __as__ the evening sacrifice. +3 Set a watch, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. +4 Incline not my heart to __any__ evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. +5 Let the righteous smite me; __it__ __shall__ __be__ a kindness: and let him reprove me; __it__ __shall__ __be__ an excellent oil, __which__ shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also __shall__ __be__ in their calamities. +6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. +7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth __wood__ upon the earth. +8 But mine eyes __are__ unto thee, O $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. +9 Keep me from the snares __which__ they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. +10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. +:::SET CHAPTER 142 +> Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. +1 I CRIED unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with my voice; with my voice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did I make my supplication. +2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. +3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. +4 I looked on __my__ right hand, and beheld, but __there__ __was__ no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. +5 I cried unto thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I said, Thou __art__ my refuge __and__ my portion in the land of the living. +6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. +7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. +:::SET CHAPTER 143 +> A Psalm of David. +1 HEAR my prayer, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, __and__ in thy righteousness. +2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. +3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. +4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. +5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands. +6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul __thirsteth__ after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. +7 Hear me speedily, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. +8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. +9 Deliver me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. +10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou __art__ my God: thy spirit __is__ good; lead me into the land of uprightness. +11 Quicken me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. +12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I __am__ thy servant. +:::SET CHAPTER 144 +> __A__ __Psalm__ of David. +1 BLESSED __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, __and__ my fingers to fight: +2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and __he__ in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. +3 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, what __is__ man, that thou takest knowledge of him! __or__ the son of man, that thou makest account of him! +4 Man is like to vanity: his days __are__ as a shadow that passeth away. +5 Bow thy heavens, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. +6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. +7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; +8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand __is__ a right hand of falsehood. +9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery __and__ an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. +10 __It__ __is__ __he__ that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword. +11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand __is__ a right hand of falsehood: +12 That our sons __may__ __be__ as plants grown up in their youth; __that__ our daughters __may__ __be__ as corner stones, polished __after__ the similitude of a palace: +13 __That__ our garners __may__ __be__ full, affording all manner of store: __that__ our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: +14 __That__ our oxen __may__ __be__ strong to labour; __that__ __there__ __be__ no breaking in, nor going out; that __there__ __be__ no complaining in our streets. +15 Happy __is__ __that__ people, that is in such a case: __yea__, happy __is__ __that__ people, whose God __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 145 +> David's __Psalm__ of praise. +1 I WILL extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever. +2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. +3 Great __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness __is__ unsearchable. +4 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. +5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. +6 And __men__ shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness. +7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness. +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. +9 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ good to all: and his tender mercies __are__ over all his works. +10 All thy works shall praise thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and thy saints shall bless thee. +11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; +12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. +13 Thy kingdom __is__ an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion __endureth__ throughout all generations. +14 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all __those__ __that__ __be__ bowed down. +15 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. +16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. +17 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. +18 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. +19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. +20 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. +21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 146 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O my soul. +2 While I live will I praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. +3 Put not your trust in princes, __nor__ in the son of man, in whom __there__ __is__ no help. +4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. +5 Happy __is__ __he__ that __hath__ the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope __is__ in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God: +6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein __is:__ which keepeth truth for ever: +7 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ looseth the prisoners: +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ openeth __the__ __eyes__ __of__ the blind: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ raiseth them that are bowed down: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ loveth the righteous: +9 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. +10 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall reign for ever, __even__ thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 147 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for __it__ __is__ good to sing praises unto our God; for __it__ __is__ pleasant; __and__ praise is comely. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. +3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. +4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by __their__ names. +5 Great __is__ our Lord, and of great power: his understanding __is__ infinite. +6 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground. +7 Sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: +8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. +9 He giveth to the beast his food, __and__ to the young ravens which cry. +10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. +11 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. +12 Praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion. +13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. +14 He maketh peace __in__ thy borders, __and__ filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. +15 He sendeth forth his commandment __upon__ earth: his word runneth very swiftly. +16 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. +17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? +18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, __and__ the waters flow. +19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. +20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and __as__ __for__ __his__ judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 148 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from the heavens: praise him in the heights. +2 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts. +3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. +4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that __be__ above the heavens. +5 Let them praise the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he commanded, and they were created. +6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass. +7 Praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: +8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: +9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: +10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: +11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: +12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: +13 Let them praise the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for his name alone is excellent; his glory __is__ above the earth and heaven. +14 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; __even__ of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 149 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ a new song, __and__ his praise in the congregation of saints. +2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. +3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. +4 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. +5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. +6 __Let__ the high __praises__ of God __be__ in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; +7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, __and__ punishments upon the people; +8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; +9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 150 +1 PRAISE ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. +2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. +3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. +4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. +5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. +6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET BOOK Proverbs +:::SET TITLE The Proverbs +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; +2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; +3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; +4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. +5 A wise __man__ will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: +6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. +7 ¶ The fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ the beginning of knowledge: __but__ fools despise wisdom and instruction. +8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: +9 For they __shall__ __be__ an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. +10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. +11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: +12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: +13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: +14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: +15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: +16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. +17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. +18 And they lay wait for their __own__ blood; they lurk privily for their __own__ lives. +19 So __are__ the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; __which__ taketh away the life of the owners thereof. +20 ¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: +21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, __saying__, +22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? +23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. +24 ¶ Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; +25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: +26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; +27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. +28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: +29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. +31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. +32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. +33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 MY son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; +2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, __and__ apply thine heart to understanding; +3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, __and__ liftest up thy voice for understanding; +4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as __for__ hid treasures; +5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and find the knowledge of God. +6 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ giveth wisdom: out of his mouth __cometh__ knowledge and understanding. +7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: __he__ __is__ a buckler to them that walk uprightly. +8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. +9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; __yea__, every good path. +10 ¶ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; +11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: +12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil __man__, from the man that speaketh froward things; +13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; +14 Who rejoice to do evil, __and__ delight in the frowardness of the wicked; +15 Whose ways __are__ crooked, and __they__ froward in their paths: +16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, __even__ from the stranger __which__ flattereth with her words; +17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. +18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. +19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. +20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good __men__, and keep the paths of the righteous. +21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. +22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 MY son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: +2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. +3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: +4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. +5 ¶ Trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. +6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. +7 ¶ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and depart from evil. +8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. +9 Honour the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: +10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. +11 ¶ My son, despise not the chastening of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; neither be weary of his correction: +12 For whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son __in__ __whom__ he delighteth. +13 ¶ Happy __is__ the man __that__ findeth wisdom, and the man __that__ getteth understanding. +14 For the merchandise of it __is__ better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. +15 She __is__ more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. +16 Length of days __is__ in her right hand; __and__ in her left hand riches and honour. +17 Her ways __are__ ways of pleasantness, and all her paths __are__ peace. +18 She __is__ a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy __is__ __every__ __one__ that retaineth her. +19 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. +20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. +21 ¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: +22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. +23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. +24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. +25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. +26 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken. +27 ¶ Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do __it__. +28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee. +29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee. +30 ¶ Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm. +31 ¶ Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. +32 For the froward __is__ abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but his secret __is__ with the righteous. +33 ¶ The curse of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. +34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. +35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 HEAR, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. +2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. +3 For I was my father's son, tender and only __beloved__ in the sight of my mother. +4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. +5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget __it__ not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. +6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. +7 Wisdom __is__ the principal thing; __therefore__ get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. +8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. +9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. +10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. +11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. +12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. +13 Take fast hold of instruction; let __her__ not go: keep her; for she __is__ thy life. +14 ¶ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil __men__. +15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. +16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause __some__ to fall. +17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. +18 But the path of the just __is__ as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. +19 The way of the wicked __is__ as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. +20 ¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. +21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. +22 For they __are__ life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. +23 ¶ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it __are__ the issues of life. +24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. +25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. +26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. +27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 MY son, attend unto my wisdom, __and__ bow thine ear to my understanding: +2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and __that__ thy lips may keep knowledge. +3 ¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop __as__ an honeycomb, and her mouth __is__ smoother than oil: +4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. +5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. +6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, __that__ thou canst not know __them__. +7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. +8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: +9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: +10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours __be__ in the house of a stranger; +11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, +12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; +13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! +14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. +15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. +16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, __and__ rivers of waters in the streets. +17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. +18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. +19 __Let__ __her__ __be__ __as__ the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. +20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? +21 For the ways of man __are__ before the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he pondereth all his goings. +22 ¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. +23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 MY son, if thou be surety for thy friend, __if__ thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, +2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. +3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. +4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. +5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand __of__ __the__ __hunter__, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. +6 ¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: +7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, +8 Provideth her meat in the summer, __and__ gathereth her food in the harvest. +9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? +10 __Yet__ a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: +11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. +12 ¶ A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. +13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; +14 Frowardness __is__ in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. +15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. +16 ¶ These six __things__ doth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hate: yea, seven __are__ an abomination unto him: +17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, +18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, +19 A false witness __that__ speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. +20 ¶ My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: +21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, __and__ tie them about thy neck. +22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and __when__ thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. +23 For the commandment __is__ a lamp; and the law __is__ light; and reproofs of instruction __are__ the way of life: +24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. +25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. +26 For by means of a whorish woman __a__ __man__ __is__ __brought__ to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life. +27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? +28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? +29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. +30 __Men__ do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; +31 But __if__ he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. +32 __But__ whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he __that__ doeth it destroyeth his own soul. +33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away. +34 For jealousy __is__ the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. +35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 MY son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. +2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. +3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. +4 Say unto wisdom, Thou __art__ my sister; and call understanding __thy__ kinswoman: +5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger __which__ flattereth with her words. +6 ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, +7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, +8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, +9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: +10 And, behold, there met him a woman __with__ the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. +11 (She __is__ loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: +12 Now __is__ __she__ without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) +13 So she caught him, and kissed him, __and__ with an impudent face said unto him, +14 __I__ __have__ peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. +15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. +16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved __works__, with fine linen of Egypt. +17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. +18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. +19 For the goodman __is__ not at home, he is gone a long journey: +20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, __and__ will come home at the day appointed. +21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. +22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; +23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it __is__ for his life. +24 ¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. +25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. +26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong __men__ have been slain by her. +27 Her house __is__ the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 DOTH not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? +2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. +3 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. +4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice __is__ to the sons of man. +5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. +6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips __shall__ __be__ right things. +7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness __is__ an abomination to my lips. +8 All the words of my mouth __are__ in righteousness; __there__ __is__ nothing froward or perverse in them. +9 They __are__ all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. +10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. +11 For wisdom __is__ better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. +12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. +13 The fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. +14 Counsel __is__ mine, and sound wisdom: I __am__ understanding; I have strength. +15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. +16 By me princes rule, and nobles, __even__ all the judges of the earth. +17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. +18 Riches and honour __are__ with me; __yea__, durable riches and righteousness. +19 My fruit __is__ better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver. +20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: +21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. +22 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. +23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. +24 When __there__ __were__ no depths, I was brought forth; when __there__ __were__ no fountains abounding with water. +25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: +26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. +27 When he prepared the heavens, I __was__ there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: +28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: +29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: +30 Then I was by him, __as__ one brought up __with__ __him:__ and I was daily __his__ delight, rejoicing always before him; +31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights __were__ with the sons of men. +32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed __are__ __they__ __that__ keep my ways. +33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. +34 Blessed __is__ the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. +35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 WISDOM hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: +2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. +3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, +4 Whoso __is__ simple, let him turn in hither: __as__ __for__ him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, +5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine __which__ I have mingled. +6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. +7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked __man__ __getteth__ himself a blot. +8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. +9 Give __instruction__ to a wise __man__, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just __man__, and he will increase in learning. +10 The fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy __is__ understanding. +11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. +12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but __if__ thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear __it__. +13 ¶ A foolish woman __is__ clamorous: __she__ __is__ simple, and knoweth nothing. +14 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city, +15 To call passengers who go right on their ways: +16 Whoso __is__ simple, let him turn in hither: and __as__ __for__ him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, +17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread __eaten__ in secret is pleasant. +18 But he knoweth not that the dead __are__ there; __and__ __that__ her guests __are__ in the depths of hell. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 THE proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son __is__ the heaviness of his mother. +2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. +4 He becometh poor that dealeth __with__ a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. +5 He that gathereth in summer __is__ a wise son: __but__ he that sleepeth in harvest __is__ a son that causeth shame. +6 Blessings __are__ upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. +7 The memory of the just __is__ blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. +8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall. +9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known. +10 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall. +11 The mouth of a righteous __man__ __is__ a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. +12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. +13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod __is__ for the back of him that is void of understanding. +14 Wise __men__ lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish __is__ near destruction. +15 The rich man's wealth __is__ his strong city: the destruction of the poor __is__ their poverty. +16 The labour of the righteous __tendeth__ to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. +17 He __is__ __in__ the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. +18 He that hideth hatred __with__ lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, __is__ a fool. +19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips __is__ wise. +20 The tongue of the just __is__ __as__ choice silver: the heart of the wicked __is__ little worth. +21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. +22 The blessing of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. +23 __It__ __is__ as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom. +24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. +25 As the whirlwind passeth, so __is__ the wicked no __more:__ but the righteous __is__ an everlasting foundation. +26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so __is__ the sluggard to them that send him. +27 The fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. +28 The hope of the righteous __shall__ __be__ gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. +29 The way of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ strength to the upright: but destruction __shall__ __be__ to the workers of iniquity. +30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. +31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. +32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked __speaketh__ frowardness. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 A FALSE balance __is__ abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but a just weight __is__ his delight. +2 __When__ pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly __is__ wisdom. +3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. +4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. +5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. +6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in __their__ __own__ naughtiness. +7 When a wicked man dieth, __his__ expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust __men__ perisheth. +8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. +9 An hypocrite with __his__ mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered. +10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, __there__ __is__ shouting. +11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. +12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace. +13 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter. +14 Where no counsel __is__, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers __there__ __is__ safety. +15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart __for__ __it:__ and he that hateth suretiship is sure. +16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong __men__ retain riches. +17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but __he__ __that__ __is__ cruel troubleth his own flesh. +18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness __shall__ __be__ a sure reward. +19 As righteousness __tendeth__ to life: so he that pursueth evil __pursueth__ __it__ to his own death. +20 They that are of a froward heart __are__ abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but __such__ __as__ __are__ upright in __their__ way __are__ his delight. +21 __Though__ hand __join__ in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. +22 __As__ a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, __so__ __is__ a fair woman which is without discretion. +23 The desire of the righteous __is__ only good: __but__ the expectation of the wicked __is__ wrath. +24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and __there__ __is__ that withholdeth more than is meet, but __it__ __tendeth__ to poverty. +25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. +26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing __shall__ __be__ upon the head of him that selleth __it__. +27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him. +28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch. +29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool __shall__ __be__ servant to the wise of heart. +30 The fruit of the righteous __is__ a tree of life; and he that winneth souls __is__ wise. +31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 WHOSO loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof __is__ brutish. +2 A good __man__ obtaineth favour of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn. +3 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. +4 A virtuous woman __is__ a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed __is__ as rottenness in his bones. +5 The thoughts of the righteous __are__ right: __but__ the counsels of the wicked __are__ deceit. +6 The words of the wicked __are__ to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. +7 The wicked are overthrown, and __are__ not: but the house of the righteous shall stand. +8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised. +9 __He__ __that__ __is__ despised, and hath a servant, __is__ better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread. +10 A righteous __man__ regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked __are__ cruel. +11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain __persons__ __is__ void of understanding. +12 The wicked desireth the net of evil __men:__ but the root of the righteous yieldeth __fruit__. +13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of __his__ lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. +14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of __his__ mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him. +15 The way of a fool __is__ right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel __is__ wise. +16 A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent __man__ covereth shame. +17 __He__ __that__ speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit. +18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise __is__ health. +19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue __is__ but for a moment. +20 Deceit __is__ in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellers of peace __is__ joy. +21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. +22 Lying lips __are__ abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but they that deal truly __are__ his delight. +23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness. +24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. +25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. +26 The righteous __is__ more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them. +27 The slothful __man__ roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man __is__ precious. +28 In the way of righteousness __is__ life; and __in__ the pathway __thereof__ __there__ __is__ no death. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 A WISE son __heareth__ his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. +2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of __his__ mouth: but the soul of the transgressors __shall__ __eat__ violence. +3 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: __but__ he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. +4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and __hath__ nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. +5 A righteous __man__ hateth lying: but a wicked __man__ is loathsome, and cometh to shame. +6 Righteousness keepeth __him__ __that__ __is__ upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. +7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet __hath__ nothing: __there__ __is__ that maketh himself poor, yet __hath__ great riches. +8 The ransom of a man's life __are__ his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. +9 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. +10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised __is__ wisdom. +11 Wealth __gotten__ by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. +12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but __when__ the desire cometh, __it__ __is__ a tree of life. +13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. +14 The law of the wise __is__ a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. +15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors __is__ hard. +16 Every prudent __man__ dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open __his__ folly. +17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador __is__ health. +18 Poverty and shame __shall__ __be__ __to__ him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. +19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but __it__ __is__ abomination to fools to depart from evil. +20 He that walketh with wise __men__ shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. +21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed. +22 A good __man__ leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner __is__ laid up for the just. +23 Much food __is__ __in__ the tillage of the poor: but there is __that__ __is__ destroyed for want of judgment. +24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. +25 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 EVERY wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. +2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but __he__ __that__ __is__ perverse in his ways despiseth him. +3 In the mouth of the foolish __is__ a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. +4 Where no oxen __are__, the crib __is__ clean: but much increase __is__ by the strength of the ox. +5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies. +6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and __findeth__ __it__ not: but knowledge __is__ easy unto him that understandeth. +7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not __in__ __him__ the lips of knowledge. +8 The wisdom of the prudent __is__ to understand his way: but the folly of fools __is__ deceit. +9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous __there__ __is__ favour. +10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. +11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. +12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof __are__ the ways of death. +13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth __is__ heaviness. +14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man __shall__ __be__ __satisfied__ from himself. +15 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent __man__ looketh well to his going. +16 A wise __man__ feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. +17 __He__ __that__ __is__ soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated. +18 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. +19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. +20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich __hath__ many friends. +21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy __is__ he. +22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth __shall__ __be__ to them that devise good. +23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips __tendeth__ only to penury. +24 The crown of the wise __is__ their riches: __but__ the foolishness of fools __is__ folly. +25 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful __witness__ speaketh lies. +26 In the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. +27 The fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. +28 In the multitude of people __is__ the king's honour: but in the want of people __is__ the destruction of the prince. +29 __He__ __that__ __is__ slow to wrath __is__ of great understanding: but __he__ __that__ __is__ hasty of spirit exalteth folly. +30 A sound heart __is__ the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. +31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. +32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. +33 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but __that__ __which__ __is__ in the midst of fools is made known. +34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin __is__ a reproach to any people. +35 The king's favour __is__ toward a wise servant: but his wrath is __against__ him that causeth shame. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 A SOFT answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. +2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. +3 The eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __are__ in every place, beholding the evil and the good. +4 A wholesome tongue __is__ a tree of life: but perverseness therein __is__ a breach in the spirit. +5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. +6 In the house of the righteous __is__ much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble. +7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish __doeth__ not so. +8 The sacrifice of the wicked __is__ an abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but the prayer of the upright __is__ his delight. +9 The way of the wicked __is__ an abomination unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness. +10 Correction __is__ grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: __and__ he that hateth reproof shall die. +11 Hell and destruction __are__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: how much more then the hearts of the children of men? +12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise. +13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. +14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. +15 All the days of the afflicted __are__ evil: but he that is of a merry heart __hath__ a continual feast. +16 Better __is__ little with the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ than great treasure and trouble therewith. +17 Better __is__ a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. +18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but __he__ __that__ __is__ slow to anger appeaseth strife. +19 The way of the slothful __man__ __is__ as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous __is__ made plain. +20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother. +21 Folly __is__ joy to __him__ __that__ __is__ destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. +22 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established. +23 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word __spoken__ in due season, how good __is__ __it!__ +24 The way of life __is__ above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath. +25 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow. +26 The thoughts of the wicked __are__ an abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but __the__ __words__ of the pure __are__ pleasant words. +27 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live. +28 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. +29 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous. +30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: __and__ a good report maketh the bones fat. +31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. +32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. +33 The fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ the instruction of wisdom; and before honour __is__ humility. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 THE preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, __is__ from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 All the ways of a man __are__ clean in his own eyes; but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ weigheth the spirits. +3 Commit thy works unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and thy thoughts shall be established. +4 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath made all __things__ for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. +5 Every one __that__ __is__ proud in heart __is__ an abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __though__ hand __join__ in hand, he shall not be unpunished. +6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __men__ depart from evil. +7 When a man's ways please the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. +8 Better __is__ a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. +9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ directeth his steps. +10 A divine sentence __is__ in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. +11 A just weight and balance __are__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s: all the weights of the bag __are__ his work. +12 __It__ __is__ an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness. +13 Righteous lips __are__ the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right. +14 The wrath of a king __is__ __as__ messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. +15 In the light of the king's countenance __is__ life; and his favour __is__ as a cloud of the latter rain. +16 How much better __is__ __it__ to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! +17 The highway of the upright __is__ to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul. +18 Pride __goeth__ before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. +19 Better __it__ __is__ __to__ __be__ of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud. +20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, happy __is__ he. +21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. +22 Understanding __is__ a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools __is__ folly. +23 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. +24 Pleasant words __are__ __as__ an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. +25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof __are__ the ways of death. +26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him. +27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips __there__ __is__ as a burning fire. +28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. +29 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way __that__ __is__ not good. +30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. +31 The hoary head __is__ a crown of glory, __if__ it be found in the way of righteousness. +32 __He__ __that__ __is__ slow to anger __is__ better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. +33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof __is__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 BETTER __is__ a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices __with__ strife. +2 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren. +3 The fining pot __is__ for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ trieth the hearts. +4 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; __and__ a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue. +5 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: __and__ he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. +6 Children's children __are__ the crown of old men; and the glory of children __are__ their fathers. +7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince. +8 A gift __is__ __as__ a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth. +9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth __very__ friends. +10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool. +11 An evil __man__ seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him. +12 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. +13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. +14 The beginning of strife __is__ __as__ when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. +15 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both __are__ abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 Wherefore __is__ __there__ a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing __he__ __hath__ no heart __to__ __it?__ +17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. +18 A man void of understanding striketh hands, __and__ becometh surety in the presence of his friend. +19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: __and__ he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction. +20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. +21 He that begetteth a fool __doeth__ __it__ to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy. +22 A merry heart doeth good __like__ a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. +23 A wicked __man__ taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment. +24 Wisdom __is__ before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool __are__ in the ends of the earth. +25 A foolish son __is__ a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him. +26 Also to punish the just __is__ not good, __nor__ to strike princes for equity. +27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: __and__ a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. +28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: __and__ he that shutteth his lips __is__ __esteemed__ a man of understanding. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 THROUGH desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh __and__ intermeddleth with all wisdom. +2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. +3 When the wicked cometh, __then__ cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach. +4 The words of a man's mouth __are__ __as__ deep waters, __and__ the wellspring of wisdom __as__ a flowing brook. +5 __It__ __is__ not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment. +6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. +7 A fool's mouth __is__ his destruction, and his lips __are__ the snare of his soul. +8 The words of a talebearer __are__ as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. +9 He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. +10 The name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. +11 The rich man's wealth __is__ his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. +12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour __is__ humility. +13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth __it__, it __is__ folly and shame unto him. +14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? +15 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge. +16 A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men. +17 __He__ __that__ __is__ first in his own cause __seemeth__ just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him. +18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty. +19 A brother offended __is__ __harder__ __to__ __be__ __won__ than a strong city: and __their__ contentions __are__ like the bars of a castle. +20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; __and__ with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. +21 Death and life __are__ in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. +22 __Whoso__ findeth a wife findeth a good __thing__, and obtaineth favour of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly. +24 A man __that__ __hath__ friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend __that__ sticketh closer than a brother. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 BETTER __is__ the poor that walketh in his integrity, than __he__ __that__ __is__ perverse in his lips, and is a fool. +2 Also, __that__ the soul __be__ without knowledge, __it__ __is__ not good; and he that hasteth with __his__ feet sinneth. +3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour. +5 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and __he__ __that__ speaketh lies shall not escape. +6 Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man __is__ a friend to him that giveth gifts. +7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth __them__ __with__ words, __yet__ they __are__ wanting __to__ __him__. +8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good. +9 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and __he__ __that__ speaketh lies shall perish. +10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes. +11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and __it__ __is__ his glory to pass over a transgression. +12 The king's wrath __is__ as the roaring of a lion; but his favour __is__ as dew upon the grass. +13 A foolish son __is__ the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife __are__ a continual dropping. +14 House and riches __are__ the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife __is__ from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. +16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; __but__ he that despiseth his ways shall die. +17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and that which he hath given will he pay him again. +18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. +19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver __him__, yet thou must do it again. +20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. +21 __There__ __are__ many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that shall stand. +22 The desire of a man __is__ his kindness: and a poor man __is__ better than a liar. +23 The fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __tendeth__ to life: and __he__ __that__ __hath__ __it__ shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil. +24 A slothful __man__ hideth his hand in __his__ bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again. +25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, __and__ he will understand knowledge. +26 He that wasteth __his__ father, __and__ chaseth away __his__ mother, __is__ a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach. +27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction __that__ __causeth__ to err from the words of knowledge. +28 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity. +29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 WINE __is__ a mocker, strong drink __is__ raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. +2 The fear of a king __is__ as the roaring of a lion: __whoso__ provoketh him to anger sinneth __against__ his own soul. +3 __It__ __is__ an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. +4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; __therefore__ shall he beg in harvest, and __have__ nothing. +5 Counsel in the heart of man __is__ __like__ deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. +6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? +7 The just __man__ walketh in his integrity: his children __are__ blessed after him. +8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. +9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? +10 Divers weights, __and__ divers measures, both of them __are__ alike abomination to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work __be__ pure, and whether __it__ __be__ right. +12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath made even both of them. +13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, __and__ thou shalt be satisfied with bread. +14 __It__ __is__ naught, __it__ __is__ naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. +15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge __are__ a precious jewel. +16 Take his garment that is surety __for__ a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. +17 Bread of deceit __is__ sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. +18 __Every__ purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. +19 He that goeth about __as__ a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. +20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. +21 An inheritance __may__ __be__ gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. +22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; __but__ wait on the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he shall save thee. +23 Divers weights __are__ an abomination unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and a false balance __is__ not good. +24 Man's goings __are__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; how can a man then understand his own way? +25 __It__ __is__ a snare to the man __who__ devoureth __that__ __which__ __is__ holy, and after vows to make inquiry. +26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. +27 The spirit of man __is__ the candle of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, searching all the inward parts of the belly. +28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. +29 The glory of young men __is__ their strength: and the beauty of old men __is__ the gray head. +30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so __do__ stripes the inward parts of the belly. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 THE king's heart __is__ in the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __as__ the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. +2 Every way of a man __is__ right in his own eyes: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ pondereth the hearts. +3 To do justice and judgment __is__ more acceptable to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ than sacrifice. +4 An high look, and a proud heart, __and__ the plowing of the wicked, __is__ sin. +5 The thoughts of the diligent __tend__ only to plenteousness; but of every one __that__ __is__ hasty only to want. +6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue __is__ a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. +7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. +8 The way of man __is__ froward and strange: but __as__ __for__ the pure, his work __is__ right. +9 __It__ __is__ better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. +10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. +11 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. +12 The righteous __man__ wisely considereth the house of the wicked: __but__ __God__ overthroweth the wicked for __their__ wickedness. +13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. +14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath. +15 __It__ __is__ joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction __shall__ __be__ to the workers of iniquity. +16 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. +17 He that loveth pleasure __shall__ __be__ a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich. +18 The wicked __shall__ __be__ a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. +19 __It__ __is__ better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. +20 __There__ __is__ treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up. +21 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. +22 A wise __man__ scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof. +23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. +24 Proud __and__ haughty scorner __is__ his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. +25 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. +26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not. +27 The sacrifice of the wicked __is__ abomination: how much more, __when__ he bringeth it with a wicked mind? +28 A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly. +29 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but __as__ __for__ the upright, he directeth his way. +30 __There__ __is__ no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 The horse __is__ prepared against the day of battle: but safety __is__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 A __GOOD__ name __is__ rather to be chosen than great riches, __and__ loving favour rather than silver and gold. +2 The rich and poor meet together: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ the maker of them all. +3 A prudent __man__ foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. +4 By humility __and__ the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __are__ riches, and honour, and life. +5 Thorns __and__ snares __are__ in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. +6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. +7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower __is__ servant to the lender. +8 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. +9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. +10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. +11 He that loveth pureness of heart, __for__ the grace of his lips the king __shall__ __be__ his friend. +12 The eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. +13 The slothful __man__ saith, __There__ __is__ a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets. +14 The mouth of strange women __is__ a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall fall therein. +15 Foolishness __is__ bound in the heart of a child; __but__ the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. +16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his __riches__, __and__ he that giveth to the rich, __shall__ surely __come__ to want. +17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. +18 For __it__ __is__ a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. +19 That thy trust may be in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. +20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, +21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? +22 Rob not the poor, because he __is__ poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate: +23 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them. +24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: +25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul. +26 Be not thou __one__ of them that strike hands, __or__ of them that are sureties for debts. +27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? +28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. +29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean __men__. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 WHEN thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what __is__ before thee: +2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou __be__ a man given to appetite. +3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they __are__ deceitful meat. +4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. +5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for __riches__ certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. +6 Eat thou not the bread of __him__ __that__ __hath__ an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: +7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so __is__ he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart __is__ not with thee. +8 The morsel __which__ thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. +9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. +10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: +11 For their redeemer __is__ mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee. +12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. +13 Withhold not correction from the child: for __if__ thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. +14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. +15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. +16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things. +17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but __be__ __thou__ in the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ all the day long. +18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. +19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. +20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: +21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe __a__ __man__ with rags. +22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. +23 Buy the truth, and sell __it__ not; __also__ wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. +24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise __child__ shall have joy of him. +25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. +26 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. +27 For a whore __is__ a deep ditch; and a strange woman __is__ a narrow pit. +28 She also lieth in wait as __for__ a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. +29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? +30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. +31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, __when__ it moveth itself aright. +32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. +33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. +34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. +35 They have stricken me, __shalt__ __thou__ __say__, __and__ I was not sick; they have beaten me, __and__ I felt __it__ not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 BE not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. +2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. +3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: +4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. +5 A wise man __is__ strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. +6 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers __there__ __is__ safety. +7 Wisdom __is__ too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. +8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. +9 The thought of foolishness __is__ sin: and the scorner __is__ an abomination to men. +10 __If__ thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength __is__ small. +11 If thou forbear to deliver __them__ __that__ __are__ drawn unto death, and __those__ __that__ __are__ ready to be slain; +12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider __it?__ and he that keepeth thy soul, doth __not__ he know __it?__ and shall __not__ he render to __every__ man according to his works? +13 My son, eat thou honey, because __it__ __is__ good; and the honeycomb, __which__ __is__ sweet to thy taste: +14 So __shall__ the knowledge of wisdom __be__ unto thy soul: when thou hast found __it__, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off. +15 Lay not wait, O wicked __man__, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place: +16 For a just __man__ falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. +17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: +18 Lest the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ see __it__, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. +19 Fret not thyself because of evil __men__, neither be thou envious at the wicked; +20 For there shall be no reward to the evil __man;__ the candle of the wicked shall be put out. +21 My son, fear thou the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ and the king: __and__ meddle not with them that are given to change: +22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? +23 These __things__ also __belong__ to the wise. __It__ __is__ not good to have respect of persons in judgment. +24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou __art__ righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him: +25 But to them that rebuke __him__ shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them. +26 __Every__ __man__ shall kiss __his__ lips that giveth a right answer. +27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house. +28 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive __not__ with thy lips. +29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work. +30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; +31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, __and__ nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. +32 Then I saw, __and__ considered __it__ well: I looked upon __it__, __and__ received instruction. +33 __Yet__ a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: +34 So shall thy poverty come __as__ one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 THESE __are__ also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. +2 __It__ __is__ the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings __is__ to search out a matter. +3 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings __is__ unsearchable. +4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. +5 Take away the wicked __from__ before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness. +6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great __men:__ +7 For better __it__ __is__ that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen. +8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest __thou__ __know__ __not__ what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame. +9 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour __himself;__ and discover not a secret to another: +10 Lest he that heareth __it__ put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away. +11 A word fitly spoken __is__ __like__ apples of gold in pictures of silver. +12 __As__ an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, __so__ __is__ a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. +13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, __so__ __is__ a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters. +14 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift __is__ __like__ clouds and wind without rain. +15 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone. +16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. +17 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and __so__ hate thee. +18 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour __is__ a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. +19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble __is__ __like__ a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint. +20 __As__ he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, __and__ __as__ vinegar upon nitre, so __is__ he that singeth songs to an heavy heart. +21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: +22 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall reward thee. +23 The north wind driveth away rain: so __doth__ an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. +24 __It__ __is__ better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. +25 __As__ cold waters to a thirsty soul, so __is__ good news from a far country. +26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked __is__ __as__ a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. +27 __It__ __is__ not good to eat much honey: so __for__ __men__ to search their own glory __is__ __not__ glory. +28 He that __hath__ no rule over his own spirit __is__ __like__ a city __that__ __is__ broken down, __and__ without walls. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 AS snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. +2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. +3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. +4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. +5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. +6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, __and__ drinketh damage. +7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so __is__ a parable in the mouth of fools. +8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so __is__ he that giveth honour to a fool. +9 __As__ a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so __is__ a parable in the mouth of fools. +10 The great __God__ that formed all __things__ both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. +11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, __so__ a fool returneth to his folly. +12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? __there__ __is__ more hope of a fool than of him. +13 The slothful __man__ saith, __There__ __is__ a lion in the way; a lion __is__ in the streets. +14 __As__ the door turneth upon his hinges, so __doth__ the slothful upon his bed. +15 The slothful hideth his hand in __his__ bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth. +16 The sluggard __is__ wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. +17 He that passeth by, __and__ meddleth with strife __belonging__ not to him, __is__ __like__ one that taketh a dog by the ears. +18 As a mad __man__ who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, +19 So __is__ the man __that__ deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport? +20 Where no wood is, __there__ the fire goeth out: so where __there__ __is__ no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. +21 __As__ coals __are__ to burning coals, and wood to fire; so __is__ a contentious man to kindle strife. +22 The words of a talebearer __are__ as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. +23 Burning lips and a wicked heart __are__ __like__ a potsherd covered with silver dross. +24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; +25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for __there__ __are__ seven abominations in his heart. +26 __Whose__ hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the __whole__ congregation. +27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. +28 A lying tongue hateth __those__ __that__ __are__ afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 BOAST not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. +2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. +3 A stone __is__ heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath __is__ heavier than them both. +4 Wrath __is__ cruel, and anger __is__ outrageous; but who __is__ able to stand before envy? +5 Open rebuke __is__ better than secret love. +6 Faithful __are__ the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy __are__ deceitful. +7 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. +8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so __is__ a man that wandereth from his place. +9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so __doth__ the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. +10 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: __for__ better __is__ a neighbour __that__ __is__ near than a brother far off. +11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me. +12 A prudent __man__ foreseeth the evil, __and__ hideth himself; __but__ the simple pass on, __and__ are punished. +13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. +14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. +15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. +16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, __which__ bewrayeth __itself__. +17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. +18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. +19 As in water face __answereth__ to face, so the heart of man to man. +20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied. +21 __As__ the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so __is__ a man to his praise. +22 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, __yet__ will not his foolishness depart from him. +23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, __and__ look well to thy herds. +24 For riches __are__ not for ever: and doth the crown __endure__ to every generation? +25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. +26 The lambs __are__ for thy clothing, and the goats __are__ the price of the field. +27 And __thou__ __shalt__ __have__ goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and __for__ the maintenance for thy maidens. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 THE wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. +2 For the transgression of a land many __are__ the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding __and__ knowledge the state __thereof__ shall be prolonged. +3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor __is__ __like__ a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. +4 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. +5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ understand all __things__. +6 Better __is__ the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than __he__ __that__ __is__ perverse __in__ __his__ ways, though he __be__ rich. +7 Whoso keepeth the law __is__ a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous __men__ shameth his father. +8 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. +9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer __shall__ __be__ abomination. +10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good __things__ in possession. +11 The rich man __is__ wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out. +12 When righteous __men__ do rejoice, __there__ __is__ great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden. +13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh __them__ shall have mercy. +14 Happy __is__ the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. +15 __As__ a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; __so__ __is__ a wicked ruler over the poor people. +16 The prince that wanteth understanding __is__ also a great oppressor: __but__ he that hateth covetousness shall prolong __his__ days. +17 A man that doeth violence to the blood of __any__ person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him. +18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but __he__ __that__ __is__ perverse __in__ __his__ ways shall fall at once. +19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain __persons__ shall have poverty enough. +20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. +21 To have respect of persons __is__ not good: for for a piece of bread __that__ man will transgress. +22 He that hasteth to be rich __hath__ an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. +23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. +24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, __It__ __is__ no transgression; the same __is__ the companion of a destroyer. +25 He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be made fat. +26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. +27 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse. +28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 HE, that being often reproved hardeneth __his__ neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. +2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. +3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth __his__ substance. +4 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it. +5 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. +6 In the transgression of an evil man __there__ __is__ a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. +7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: __but__ the wicked regardeth not to know __it__. +8 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise __men__ turn away wrath. +9 __If__ a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, __there__ __is__ no rest. +10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul. +11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise __man__ keepeth it in till afterwards. +12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants __are__ wicked. +13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ lighteneth both their eyes. +14 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever. +15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left __to__ __himself__ bringeth his mother to shame. +16 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall. +17 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. +18 Where __there__ __is__ no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy __is__ he. +19 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer. +20 Seest thou a man __that__ __is__ hasty in his words? __there__ __is__ more hope of a fool than of him. +21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become __his__ son at the length. +22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression. +23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit. +24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth __it__ not. +25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be safe. +26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but __every__ man's judgment __cometh__ from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 An unjust man __is__ an abomination to the just: and __he__ __that__ __is__ upright in the way __is__ abomination to the wicked. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 THE words of Agur the son of Jakeh, __even__ the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, +2 Surely I __am__ more brutish than __any__ man, and have not the understanding of a man. +3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. +4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what __is__ his name, and what __is__ his son's name, if thou canst tell? +5 Every word of God __is__ pure: he __is__ a shield unto them that put their trust in him. +6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. +7 Two __things__ have I required of thee; deny me __them__ not before I die: +8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: +9 Lest I be full, and deny __thee__, and say, Who __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God __in__ __vain__. +10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty. +11 __There__ __is__ a generation __that__ curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. +12 __There__ __is__ a generation __that__ __are__ pure in their own eyes, and __yet__ is not washed from their filthiness. +13 __There__ __is__ a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. +14 __There__ __is__ a generation, whose teeth __are__ __as__ swords, and their jaw teeth __as__ knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from __among__ men. +15 The horseleach hath two daughters, __crying__, Give, give. There are three __things__ __that__ are never satisfied, __yea__, four __things__ say not, __It__ __is__ enough: +16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth __that__ is not filled with water; and the fire __that__ saith not, __It__ __is__ enough. +17 The eye __that__ mocketh at __his__ father, and despiseth to obey __his__ mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. +18 There be three __things__ __which__ are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: +19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. +20 Such __is__ the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. +21 For three __things__ the earth is disquieted, and for four __which__ it cannot bear: +22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat; +23 For an odious __woman__ when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. +24 There be four __things__ __which__ __are__ little upon the earth, but they __are__ exceeding wise: +25 The ants __are__ a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; +26 The conies __are__ __but__ a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; +27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; +28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces. +29 There be three __things__ which go well, yea, four are comely in going: +30 A lion __which__ __is__ strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any; +31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom __there__ __is__ no rising up. +32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, __lay__ thine hand upon thy mouth. +33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 THE words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. +2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? +3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. +4 __It__ __is__ not for kings, O Lemuel, __it__ __is__ not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: +5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. +6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. +7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. +8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. +9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. +10 ¶ Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price __is__ far above rubies. +11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. +12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. +13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. +14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. +15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. +16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. +17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. +18 She perceiveth that her merchandise __is__ good: her candle goeth not out by night. +19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. +20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. +21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household __are__ clothed with scarlet. +22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing __is__ silk and purple. +23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. +24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth __it;__ and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. +25 Strength and honour __are__ her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. +26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue __is__ the law of kindness. +27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. +28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband __also__, and he praiseth her. +29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. +30 Favour __is__ deceitful, and beauty __is__ vain: __but__ a woman __that__ feareth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, she shall be praised. +31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. +:::SET BOOK Ecclesiastes +:::SET TITLE Ecclesiastes; or, the Preacher +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. +2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all __is__ vanity. +3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? +4 __One__ generation passeth away, and __another__ generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. +5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. +6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. +7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea __is__ not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. +8 All things __are__ full of labour; man cannot utter __it:__ the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. +9 The thing that hath been, it __is__ __that__ which shall be; and that which is done __is__ that which shall be done: and __there__ __is__ no new __thing__ under the sun. +10 Is there __any__ thing whereof it may be said, See, this __is__ new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. +11 __There__ __is__ no remembrance of former __things;__ neither shall there be __any__ remembrance of __things__ that are to come with __those__ that shall come after. +12 ¶ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. +13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all __things__ that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. +14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all __is__ vanity and vexation of spirit. +15 __That__ __which__ __is__ crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. +16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all __they__ that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. +17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. +18 For in much wisdom __is__ much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 I SAID in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also __is__ vanity. +2 I said of laughter, __It__ __is__ mad: and of mirth, What doeth it? +3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what __was__ that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. +4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: +5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all __kind__ __of__ fruits: +6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: +7 I got __me__ servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: +8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, __as__ musical instruments, and that of all sorts. +9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. +10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. +11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all __was__ vanity and vexation of spirit, and __there__ __was__ no profit under the sun. +12 ¶ And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what __can__ the man __do__ that cometh after the king? __even__ that which hath been already done. +13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. +14 The wise man's eyes __are__ in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. +15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also __is__ vanity. +16 For __there__ __is__ no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now __is__ in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise __man?__ as the fool. +17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun __is__ grievous unto me: for all __is__ vanity and vexation of spirit. +18 ¶ Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. +19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise __man__ or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This __is__ also vanity. +20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. +21 For there is a man whose labour __is__ in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it __for__ his portion. This also __is__ vanity and a great evil. +22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? +23 For all his days __are__ sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. +24 ¶ __There__ __is__ nothing better for a man, __than__ that he should eat and drink, and __that__ he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it __was__ from the hand of God. +25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten __hereunto__, more than I? +26 For __God__ giveth to a man that __is__ good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to __him__ __that__ __is__ good before God. This also __is__ vanity and vexation of spirit. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 TO every __thing__ __there__ __is__ a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: +2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up __that__ __which__ __is__ planted; +3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; +4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; +5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; +6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; +7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; +8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. +9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? +10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. +11 He hath made every __thing__ beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. +12 I know that __there__ __is__ no good in them, but for __a__ __man__ to rejoice, and to do good in his life. +13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it __is__ the gift of God. +14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth __it__, that __men__ should fear before him. +15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. +16 ¶ And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, __that__ wickedness __was__ there; and the place of righteousness, __that__ iniquity __was__ there. +17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for __there__ __is__ a time there for every purpose and for every work. +18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. +19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all __is__ vanity. +20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. +21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? +22 Wherefore I perceive that __there__ __is__ nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that __is__ his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 SO I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of __such__ __as__ __were__ oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors __there__ __was__ power; but they had no comforter. +2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. +3 Yea, better __is__ __he__ than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. +4 ¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This __is__ also vanity and vexation of spirit. +5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. +6 Better __is__ an handful __with__ quietness, than both the hands full __with__ travail and vexation of spirit. +7 ¶ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. +8 There is one __alone__, and __there__ __is__ not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet __is__ __there__ no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither __saith__ __he__, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This __is__ also vanity, yea, it __is__ a sore travail. +9 ¶ Two __are__ better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. +10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him __that__ __is__ alone when he falleth; for __he__ __hath__ not another to help him up. +11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm __alone?__ +12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. +13 ¶ Better __is__ a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. +14 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also __he__ __that__ __is__ born in his kingdom becometh poor. +15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. +16 __There__ __is__ no end of all the people, __even__ of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also __is__ vanity and vexation of spirit. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 KEEP thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. +2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter __any__ thing before God: for God __is__ in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. +3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice __is__ __known__ by multitude of words. +4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for __he__ __hath__ no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. +5 Better __is__ __it__ that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. +6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it __was__ an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? +7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words __there__ __are__ also __divers__ vanities: but fear thou God. +8 ¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for __he__ __that__ __is__ higher than the highest regardeth; and __there__ __be__ higher than they. +9 ¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king __himself__ is served by the field. +10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this __is__ also vanity. +11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good __is__ __there__ to the owners thereof, saving the beholding __of__ __them__ with their eyes? +12 The sleep of a labouring man __is__ sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. +13 There is a sore evil __which__ I have seen under the sun, __namely__, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. +14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and __there__ __is__ nothing in his hand. +15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. +16 And this also __is__ a sore evil, __that__ in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? +17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and __he__ __hath__ much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. +18 ¶ Behold __that__ which I have seen: __it__ __is__ good and comely __for__ __one__ to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it __is__ his portion. +19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this __is__ the gift of God. +20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth __him__ in the joy of his heart. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 THERE is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it __is__ common among men: +2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this __is__ vanity, and it __is__ an evil disease. +3 ¶ If a man beget an hundred __children__, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also __that__ he have no burial; I say, __that__ an untimely birth __is__ better than he. +4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. +5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known __any__ __thing:__ this hath more rest than the other. +6 ¶ Yea, though he live a thousand years twice __told__, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? +7 All the labour of man __is__ for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. +8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? +9 ¶ Better __is__ the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this __is__ also vanity and vexation of spirit. +10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it __is__ man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he. +11 ¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what __is__ man the better? +12 For who knoweth what __is__ good for man in __this__ life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 A GOOD name __is__ better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. +2 ¶ __It__ __is__ better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that __is__ the end of all men; and the living will lay __it__ to his heart. +3 Sorrow __is__ better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. +4 The heart of the wise __is__ in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools __is__ in the house of mirth. +5 __It__ __is__ better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. +6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so __is__ the laughter of the fool: this also __is__ vanity. +7 ¶ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart. +8 Better __is__ the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: __and__ the patient in spirit __is__ better than the proud in spirit. +9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. +10 Say not thou, What is __the__ __cause__ that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. +11 ¶ Wisdom __is__ good with an inheritance: and __by__ __it__ __there__ __is__ profit to them that see the sun. +12 For wisdom __is__ a defence, __and__ money __is__ a defence: but the excellency of knowledge __is__, __that__ wisdom giveth life to them that have it. +13 Consider the work of God: for who can make __that__ straight, which he hath made crooked? +14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. +15 All __things__ have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just __man__ that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked __man__ that prolongeth __his__ __life__ in his wickedness. +16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? +17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? +18 __It__ __is__ good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all. +19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty __men__ which are in the city. +20 For __there__ __is__ not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. +21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: +22 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. +23 ¶ All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it __was__ far from me. +24 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? +25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason __of__ __things__, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness __and__ madness: +26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart __is__ snares and nets, __and__ her hands __as__ bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. +27 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, __counting__ one by one, to find out the account: +28 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. +29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 WHO __is__ as the wise __man?__ and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed. +2 I __counsel__ __thee__ to keep the king's commandment, and __that__ in regard of the oath of God. +3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. +4 Where the word of a king __is__, __there__ __is__ power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? +5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. +6 ¶ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man __is__ great upon him. +7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? +8 __There__ __is__ no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither __hath__ __he__ power in the day of death: and __there__ __is__ no discharge in __that__ war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. +9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: __there__ __is__ a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. +10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this __is__ also vanity. +11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. +12 ¶ Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his __days__ be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: +13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong __his__ days, __which__ __are__ as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. +14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just __men__, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked __men__, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also __is__ vanity. +15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. +16 ¶ When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also __there__ __is__ __that__ neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) +17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek __it__ out, yet he shall not find __it;__ yea further; though a wise __man__ think to know __it__, yet shall he not be able to find __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 FOR all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, __are__ in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred __by__ all __that__ __is__ before them. +2 All __things__ __come__ alike to all: __there__ __is__ one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as __is__ the good, so __is__ the sinner; __and__ he that sweareth, as __he__ that feareth an oath. +3 This __is__ an evil among all __things__ that are done under the sun, that __there__ __is__ one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness __is__ in their heart while they live, and after that __they__ __go__ to the dead. +4 ¶ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. +5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. +6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any __thing__ that is done under the sun. +7 ¶ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. +8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. +9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that __is__ thy portion in __this__ life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. +10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do __it__ with thy might; for __there__ __is__ no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. +11 ¶ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race __is__ not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. +12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so __are__ the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. +13 ¶ This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it __seemed__ great unto me: +14 __There__ __was__ a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: +15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. +16 Then said I, Wisdom __is__ better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom __is__ despised, and his words are not heard. +17 The words of wise __men__ __are__ heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. +18 Wisdom __is__ better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: __so__ __doth__ a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom __and__ honour. +2 A wise man's heart __is__ at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. +3 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth __him__, and he saith to every one __that__ he __is__ a fool. +4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences. +5 There is an evil __which__ I have seen under the sun, as an error __which__ proceedeth from the ruler: +6 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. +7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth. +8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. +9 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; __and__ he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. +10 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom __is__ profitable to direct. +11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. +12 The words of a wise man's mouth __are__ gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. +13 The beginning of the words of his mouth __is__ foolishness: and the end of his talk __is__ mischievous madness. +14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? +15 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city. +16 ¶ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king __is__ a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! +17 Blessed __art__ thou, O land, when thy king __is__ the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness! +18 ¶ By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. +19 ¶ A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all __things__. +20 ¶ Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 CAST thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. +2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. +3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty __themselves__ upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. +4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. +5 As thou knowest not what __is__ the way of the spirit, __nor__ how the bones __do__ __grow__ in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. +6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both __shall__ __be__ alike good. +7 ¶ Truly the light __is__ sweet, and a pleasant __thing__ __it__ __is__ for the eyes to behold the sun: +8 But if a man live many years, __and__ rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh __is__ vanity. +9 ¶ Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these __things__ God will bring thee into judgment. +10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth __are__ vanity. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; +2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: +3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, +4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low; +5 Also __when__ they shall be afraid of __that__ __which__ __is__ high, and fears __shall__ __be__ in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: +6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. +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; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, __and__ set in order many proverbs. +10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and __that__ __which__ __was__ written __was__ upright, __even__ words of truth. +11 The words of the wise __are__ as goads, and as nails fastened __by__ the masters of assemblies, __which__ are given from one shepherd. +12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books __there__ __is__ no end; and much study __is__ a weariness of the flesh. +13 ¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this __is__ the whole __duty__ of man. +14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether __it__ __be__ good, or whether __it__ __be__ evil. +:::SET BOOK Song of Solomon +:::SET TITLE The Song of Solomon +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE song of songs, which __is__ Solomon's. +2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love __is__ better than wine. +3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name __is__ __as__ ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. +4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. +5 I __am__ black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. +6 Look not upon me, because I __am__ black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; __but__ mine own vineyard have I not kept. +7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest __thy__ __flock__ to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? +8 ¶ If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents. +9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots. +10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows __of__ __jewels__, thy neck with chains __of__ __gold__. +11 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver. +12 ¶ While the king __sitteth__ at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. +13 A bundle of myrrh __is__ my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. +14 My beloved __is__ unto me __as__ a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi. +15 Behold, thou __art__ fair, my love; behold, thou __art__ fair; thou __hast__ doves' eyes. +16 Behold, thou __art__ fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed __is__ green. +17 The beams of our house __are__ cedar, __and__ our rafters of fir. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 I __AM__ the rose of Sharon, __and__ the lily of the valleys. +2 As the lily among thorns, so __is__ my love among the daughters. +3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so __is__ my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit __was__ sweet to my taste. +4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me __was__ love. +5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I __am__ sick of love. +6 His left hand __is__ under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. +7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake __my__ love, till he please. +8 ¶ The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. +9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice. +10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. +11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over __and__ gone; +12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing __of__ __birds__ is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; +13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines __with__ the tender grape give a __good__ smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. +14 ¶ O my dove, __that__ __art__ in the clefts of the rock, in the secret __places__ of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet __is__ thy voice, and thy countenance __is__ comely. +15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines __have__ tender grapes. +16 ¶ My beloved __is__ mine, and I __am__ his: he feedeth among the lilies. +17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. +2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. +3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: __to__ __whom__ __I__ __said__, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? +4 __It__ __was__ but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. +5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake __my__ love, till he please. +6 ¶ Who __is__ this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? +7 Behold his bed, which __is__ Solomon's; threescore valiant men __are__ about it, of the valiant of Israel. +8 They all hold swords, __being__ expert in war: every man __hath__ his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. +9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. +10 He made the pillars thereof __of__ silver, the bottom thereof __of__ gold, the covering of it __of__ purple, the midst thereof being paved __with__ love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. +11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 BEHOLD, thou __art__ fair, my love; behold, thou __art__ fair; thou __hast__ doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair __is__ as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. +2 Thy teeth __are__ like a flock __of__ __sheep__ __that__ __are__ __even__ shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none __is__ barren among them. +3 Thy lips __are__ like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech __is__ comely: thy temples __are__ like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. +4 Thy neck __is__ like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. +5 Thy two breasts __are__ like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. +6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense. +7 Thou __art__ all fair, my love; __there__ __is__ no spot in thee. +8 ¶ Come with me from Lebanon, __my__ spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards. +9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, __my__ spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. +10 How fair is thy love, my sister, __my__ spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! +11 Thy lips, O __my__ spouse, drop __as__ the honeycomb: honey and milk __are__ under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments __is__ like the smell of Lebanon. +12 A garden inclosed __is__ my sister, __my__ spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. +13 Thy plants __are__ an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, +14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: +15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. +16 ¶ Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, __that__ the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 I AM come into my garden, my sister, __my__ spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. +2 ¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: __it__ __is__ the voice of my beloved that knocketh, __saying__, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, __and__ my locks with the drops of the night. +3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? +4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole __of__ __the__ __door__, and my bowels were moved for him. +5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped __with__ myrrh, and my fingers __with__ sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. +6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, __and__ was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. +7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. +8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I __am__ sick of love. +9 ¶ What __is__ thy beloved more than __another__ beloved, O thou fairest among women? what __is__ thy beloved more than __another__ beloved, that thou dost so charge us? +10 My beloved __is__ white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. +11 His head __is__ __as__ the most fine gold, his locks __are__ bushy, __and__ black as a raven. +12 His eyes __are__ as __the__ __eyes__ of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, __and__ fitly set. +13 His cheeks __are__ as a bed of spices, __as__ sweet flowers: his lips __like__ lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. +14 His hands __are__ __as__ gold rings set with the beryl: his belly __is__ __as__ bright ivory overlaid __with__ sapphires. +15 His legs __are__ __as__ pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance __is__ as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. +16 His mouth __is__ most sweet: yea, he __is__ altogether lovely. This __is__ my beloved, and this __is__ my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 WHITHER is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee. +2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. +3 I __am__ my beloved's, and my beloved __is__ mine: he feedeth among the lilies. +4 ¶ Thou __art__ beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as __an__ __army__ with banners. +5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair __is__ as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. +6 Thy teeth __are__ as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and __there__ __is__ not one barren among them. +7 As a piece of a pomegranate __are__ thy temples within thy locks. +8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. +9 My dove, my undefiled is __but__ one; she __is__ the __only__ one of her mother, she __is__ the choice __one__ of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; __yea__, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. +10 ¶ Who __is__ she __that__ looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, __and__ terrible as __an__ __army__ with banners? +11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, __and__ to see whether the vine flourished, __and__ the pomegranates budded. +12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me __like__ the chariots of Amminadib. +13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 HOW beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs __are__ like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. +2 Thy navel __is__ __like__ a round goblet, __which__ wanteth not liquor: thy belly __is__ __like__ an heap of wheat set about with lilies. +3 Thy two breasts __are__ like two young roes __that__ __are__ twins. +4 Thy neck __is__ as a tower of ivory; thine eyes __like__ the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose __is__ as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. +5 Thine head upon thee __is__ like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king __is__ held in the galleries. +6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! +7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters __of__ __grapes__. +8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; +9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth __down__ sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. +10 ¶ I __am__ my beloved's, and his desire __is__ toward me. +11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. +12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, __whether__ the tender grape appear, __and__ the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. +13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates __are__ all manner of pleasant __fruits__, new and old, __which__ I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 O THAT thou __wert__ as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! __when__ I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. +2 I would lead thee, __and__ bring thee into my mother's house, __who__ would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. +3 His left hand __should__ __be__ under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. +4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake __my__ love, until he please. +5 Who __is__ this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth __that__ bare thee. +6 ¶ Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love __is__ strong as death; jealousy __is__ cruel as the grave: the coals thereof __are__ coals of fire, __which__ __hath__ a most vehement flame. +7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. +8 ¶ We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? +9 If she __be__ a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she __be__ a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. +10 I __am__ a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour. +11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand __pieces__ of silver. +12 My vineyard, which __is__ mine, __is__ before me: thou, O Solomon, __must__ __have__ a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. +13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear __it__. +14 ¶ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. +:::SET BOOK Isaiah +:::SET TITLE The Book of the Prophet Isaiah +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, __and__ Hezekiah, kings of Judah. +2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. +3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: __but__ Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. +4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. +5 ¶ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. +6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head __there__ __is__ no soundness in it; __but__ wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. +7 Your country __is__ desolate, your cities __are__ burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and __it__ __is__ desolate, as overthrown by strangers. +8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. +9 Except the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, __and__ we should have been like unto Gomorrah. +10 ¶ Hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. +11 To what purpose __is__ the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. +12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? +13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; __it__ __is__ iniquity, even the solemn meeting. +14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear __them__. +15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. +16 ¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; +17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. +18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. +19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: +20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken __it__. +21 ¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. +22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: +23 Thy princes __are__ rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them. +24 Therefore saith the Lord, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: +25 ¶ And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: +26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. +27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. +28 ¶ And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners __shall__ __be__ together, and they that forsake the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be consumed. +29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. +30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. +31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench __them__. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THE word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. +2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, __that__ the mountain of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. +3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from Jerusalem. +4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. +5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 ¶ Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and __are__ soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. +7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither __is__ __there__ __any__ end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither __is__ __there__ __any__ end of their chariots: +8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: +9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. +10 ¶ Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for the glory of his majesty. +11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ alone shall be exalted in that day. +12 For the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __shall__ __be__ upon every __one__ __that__ __is__ proud and lofty, and upon every __one__ __that__ __is__ lifted up; and he shall be brought low: +13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, __that__ __are__ high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan, +14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills __that__ __are__ lifted up, +15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall, +16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures. +17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ alone shall be exalted in that day. +18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish. +19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. +20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made __each__ __one__ for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; +21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. +22 Cease ye from man, whose breath __is__ in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 FOR, behold, the Lord, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, +2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, +3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. +4 And I will give children __to__ __be__ their princes, and babes shall rule over them. +5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. +6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, __saying__, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and __let__ this ruin __be__ under thy hand: +7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house __is__ neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people. +8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings __are__ against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to provoke the eyes of his glory. +9 ¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide __it__ not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. +10 Say ye to the righteous, that __it__ __shall__ __be__ well __with__ __him:__ for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. +11 Woe unto the wicked! __it__ __shall__ __be__ ill __with__ __him:__ for the reward of his hands shall be given him. +12 ¶ __As__ __for__ my people, children __are__ their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause __thee__ to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. +13 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people. +14 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor __is__ in your houses. +15 What mean ye __that__ ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts. +16 ¶ Moreover the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing __as__ they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: +17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will discover their secret parts. +18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of __their__ tinkling ornaments __about__ __their__ __feet__, and __their__ cauls, and __their__ round tires like the moon, +19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, +20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, +21 The rings, and nose jewels, +22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, +23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails. +24 And it shall come to pass, __that__ instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; __and__ burning instead of beauty. +25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war. +26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she __being__ desolate shall sit upon the ground. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach. +2 In that day shall the branch of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth __shall__ __be__ excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. +3 And it shall come to pass, __that__ __he__ __that__ __is__ left in Zion, and __he__ __that__ remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, __even__ every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: +4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory __shall__ __be__ a defence. +6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 NOW will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: +2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. +3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. +4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? +5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; __and__ break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: +6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. +7 For the vineyard of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry. +8 ¶ Woe unto them that join house to house, __that__ lay field to field, till __there__ __be__ no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! +9 In mine ears __said__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, __even__ great and fair, without inhabitant. +10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. +11 ¶ Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, __that__ they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, __till__ wine inflame them! +12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, neither consider the operation of his hands. +13 ¶ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because __they__ __have__ no knowledge: and their honourable men __are__ famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. +14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. +15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: +16 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness. +17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. +18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: +19 That say, Let him make speed, __and__ hasten his work, that we may see __it:__ and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know __it!__ +20 ¶ Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! +21 Woe unto __them__ __that__ __are__ wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! +22 Woe unto __them__ __that__ __are__ mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: +23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! +24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, __so__ their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. +25 Therefore is the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases __were__ torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand __is__ stretched out still. +26 ¶ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly: +27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken: +28 Whose arrows __are__ sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind: +29 Their roaring __shall__ __be__ like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry __it__ away safe, and none shall deliver __it__. +30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if __one__ look unto the land, behold darkness __and__ sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 IN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. +2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. +3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: the whole earth __is__ full of his glory. +4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. +5 ¶ Then said I, Woe __is__ me! for I am undone; because I __am__ a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, __which__ he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: +7 And he laid __it__ upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. +8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here __am__ I; send me. +9 ¶ And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. +10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. +11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, +12 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have removed men far away, and __there__ __be__ a great forsaking in the midst of the land. +13 ¶ But yet in it __shall__ __be__ a tenth, and __it__ shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance __is__ in them, when they cast __their__ __leaves:__ __so__ the holy seed __shall__ __be__ the substance thereof. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 AND it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, __that__ Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. +2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. +3 Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; +4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. +5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, +6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, __even__ the son of Tabeal: +7 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. +8 For the head of Syria __is__ Damascus, and the head of Damascus __is__ Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. +9 And the head of Ephraim __is__ Samaria, and the head of Samaria __is__ Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. +10 ¶ Moreover the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake again unto Ahaz, saying, +11 Ask thee a sign of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. +12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; __Is__ __it__ a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? +14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. +15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. +16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. +17 ¶ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; __even__ the king of Assyria. +18 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall hiss for the fly that __is__ in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that __is__ in the land of Assyria. +19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. +20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, __namely__, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. +21 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; +22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk __that__ they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land. +23 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall __even__ be for briers and thorns. +24 With arrows and with bows shall __men__ come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. +25 And __on__ all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 MOREOVER the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. +2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. +3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. +4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. +5 ¶ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake also unto me again, saying, +6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; +7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, __even__ the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: +8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach __even__ to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel. +9 ¶ Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. +10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God __is__ with us. +11 ¶ For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, +12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all __them__ __to__ whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. +13 Sanctify the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts himself; and __let__ him __be__ your fear, and __let__ him __be__ your dread. +14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. +16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. +17 And I will wait upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. +18 Behold, I and the children whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given me __are__ for signs and for wonders in Israel from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. +19 ¶ And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? +20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, __it__ __is__ because __there__ __is__ no light in them. +21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. +22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and __they__ __shall__ __be__ driven to darkness. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 NEVERTHELESS the dimness __shall__ not __be__ such as __was__ in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict __her__ __by__ the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. +2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. +3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, __and__ not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, __and__ as __men__ rejoice when they divide the spoil. +4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. +5 For every battle of the warrior __is__ with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but __this__ shall be with burning __and__ fuel of fire. +6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. +7 Of the increase of __his__ government and peace __there__ __shall__ __be__ no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts will perform this. +8 ¶ The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. +9 And all the people shall know, __even__ Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, +10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change __them__ __into__ cedars. +11 Therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; +12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand __is__ stretched out still. +13 ¶ For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +14 Therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. +15 The ancient and honourable, he __is__ the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he __is__ the tail. +16 For the leaders of this people cause __them__ to err; and __they__ __that__ __are__ led of them __are__ destroyed. +17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one __is__ an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand __is__ stretched out still. +18 ¶ For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up __like__ the lifting up of smoke. +19 Through the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother. +20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: +21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: __and__ they together __shall__ __be__ against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand __is__ stretched out still. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 WOE unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness __which__ they have prescribed; +2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and __that__ they may rob the fatherless! +3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation __which__ shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? +4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand __is__ stretched out still. +5 ¶ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. +6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. +7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but __it__ __is__ in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. +8 For he saith, __Are__ not my princes altogether kings? +9 __Is__ not Calno as Carchemish? __is__ not Hamath as Arpad? __is__ not Samaria as Damascus? +10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; +11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? +12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, __that__ when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. +13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done __it__, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant __man:__ +14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs __that__ __are__ left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. +15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? __or__ shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake __itself__ against them that lift it up, __or__ as if the staff should lift up __itself__, __as__ __if__ __it__ __were__ no wood. +16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. +17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; +18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. +19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. +20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. +21 The remnant shall return, __even__ the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. +22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, __yet__ a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. +23 For the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. +24 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. +25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. +26 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and __as__ his rod __was__ upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. +27 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. +28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: +29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled. +30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. +31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee. +32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand __against__ the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. +33 Behold, the Lord, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature __shall__ __be__ hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled. +34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: +2 And the spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; +3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: +4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. +5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. +6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. +7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. +8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. +9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as the waters cover the sea. +10 ¶ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. +11 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. +12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. +13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. +14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make __men__ go over dryshod. +16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND in that day thou shalt say, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. +2 Behold, God __is__ my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ JEHOVAH __is__ my strength and __my__ song; he also is become my salvation. +3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. +4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. +5 Sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for he hath done excellent things: this __is__ known in all the earth. +6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great __is__ the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 THE burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. +2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. +3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, __even__ them that rejoice in my highness. +4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. +5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, __even__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. +6 ¶ Howl ye; for the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. +7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: +8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces __shall__ __be__ __as__ flames. +9 Behold, the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. +10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. +11 And I will punish the world for __their__ evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. +12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. +13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. +14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. +15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined __unto__ __them__ shall fall by the sword. +16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. +17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and __as__ __for__ gold, they shall not delight in it. +18 __Their__ bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. +19 ¶ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. +20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. +21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. +22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in __their__ pleasant palaces: and her time __is__ near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 FOR the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. +2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. +3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, +4 ¶ That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! +5 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath broken the staff of the wicked, __and__ the sceptre of the rulers. +6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, __and__ none hindereth. +7 The whole earth is at rest, __and__ is quiet: they break forth into singing. +8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, __and__ the cedars of Lebanon, __saying__, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. +9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet __thee__ at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, __even__ all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. +10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? +11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, __and__ the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. +12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! __how__ art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! +13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: +14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. +15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. +16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, __and__ consider thee, __saying__, __Is__ this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; +17 __That__ made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; __that__ opened not the house of his prisoners? +18 All the kings of the nations, __even__ all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. +19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, __and__ __as__ the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. +20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, __and__ slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. +21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. +22 For I will rise up against them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +24 ¶ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, __so__ shall it stand: +25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. +26 This __is__ the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this __is__ the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. +27 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul __it?__ and his hand __is__ stretched out, and who shall turn it back? +28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. +29 ¶ Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit __shall__ __be__ a fiery flying serpent. +30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant. +31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, __art__ dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none __shall__ __be__ alone in his appointed times. +32 What shall __one__ then answer the messengers of the nation? That the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 THE burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, __and__ brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, __and__ brought to silence; +2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads __shall__ __be__ baldness, __and__ every beard cut off. +3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. +4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard __even__ unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. +5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives __shall__ __flee__ unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction. +6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. +7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. +8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim. +9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 SEND ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. +2 For it shall be, __that__, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, __so__ the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon. +3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. +4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land. +5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness. +6 ¶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; __he__ __is__ very proud: __even__ of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: __but__ his lies __shall__ not __be__ so. +7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn; surely __they__ __are__ stricken. +8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, __and__ the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come __even__ unto Jazer, they wandered __through__ the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea. +9 ¶ Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen. +10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in __their__ presses; I have made __their__ __vintage__ shouting to cease. +11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh. +12 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail. +13 This __is__ the word that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken concerning Moab since that time. +14 But now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant __shall__ __be__ very small __and__ feeble. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 THE burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from __being__ a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. +2 The cities of Aroer __are__ forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make __them__ afraid. +3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +4 And in that day it shall come to pass, __that__ the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. +5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. +6 ¶ Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two __or__ three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four __or__ five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel. +7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. +8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect __that__ which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images. +9 ¶ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation. +10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: +11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: __but__ the harvest __shall__ __be__ a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. +12 ¶ Woe to the multitude of many people, __which__ make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, __that__ make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! +13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but __God__ shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. +14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; __and__ before the morning he __is__ not. This __is__ the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 WOE to the land shadowing with wings, which __is__ beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: +2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, __saying__, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! +3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. +4 For so the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, __and__ like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. +5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away __and__ cut down the branches. +6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. +7 ¶ In that time shall the present be brought unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the mount Zion. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 THE burden of Egypt. Behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. +2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, __and__ kingdom against kingdom. +3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. +4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. +6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; __and__ the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. +7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no __more__. +8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. +9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded. +10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices __and__ ponds for fish. +11 ¶ Surely the princes of Zoan __are__ fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I __am__ the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? +12 Where __are__ they? where __are__ thy wise __men?__ and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. +13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, __even__ __they__ __that__ __are__ the stay of the tribes thereof. +14 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken __man__ staggereth in his vomit. +15 Neither shall there be __any__ work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do. +16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, which he shaketh over it. +17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, which he hath determined against it. +18 ¶ In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction. +19 In that day shall there be an altar to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. +21 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and perform __it__. +22 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal __it:__ and they shall return __even__ to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. +23 ¶ In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. +24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, __even__ a blessing in the midst of the land: +25 Whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed __be__ Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 IN the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; +2 At the same time spake the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. +3 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years __for__ a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; +4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with __their__ buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. +5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. +6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such __is__ our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 THE burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; __so__ it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. +2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. +3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing __of__ __it;__ I was dismayed at the seeing __of__ __it__. +4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. +5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, __and__ anoint the shield. +6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth. +7 And he saw a chariot __with__ a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, __and__ a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: +8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: +9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, __with__ a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. +10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you. +11 ¶ The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? +12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come. +13 ¶ The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. +14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. +15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. +16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: +17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel hath spoken __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? +2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain __men__ __are__ not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. +3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, __which__ have fled from far. +4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. +5 For __it__ __is__ a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. +6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men __and__ horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. +7 And it shall come to pass, __that__ thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. +8 ¶ And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. +9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. +10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. +11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. +12 And in that day did the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: +13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. +14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts. +15 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, __even__ unto Shebna, which __is__ over the house, __and__ __say__, +16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, __as__ he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, __and__ that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? +17 Behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. +18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee __like__ a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory __shall__ __be__ the shame of thy lord's house. +19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. +20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: +21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. +22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. +23 And I will fasten him __as__ a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. +24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. +25 In that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that __was__ upon it shall be cut off: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 THE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. +2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished. +3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, __is__ her revenue; and she is a mart of nations. +4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, __even__ the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, __nor__ bring up virgins. +5 As at the report concerning Egypt, __so__ shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. +6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. +7 __Is__ this your joyous __city__, whose antiquity __is__ of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. +8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning __city__, whose merchants __are__ princes, whose traffickers __are__ the honourable of the earth? +9 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, __and__ to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. +10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: __there__ __is__ no more strength. +11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given a commandment against the merchant __city__, to destroy the strong holds thereof. +12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest. +13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, __till__ the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; __and__ he brought it to ruin. +14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. +15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. +16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. +17 ¶ And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. +18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 BEHOLD, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. +2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. +3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken this word. +4 The earth mourneth __and__ fadeth away, the world languisheth __and__ fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. +5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. +6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. +7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. +8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. +9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. +10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in. +11 __There__ __is__ a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. +12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. +13 ¶ When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, __there__ __shall__ __be__ as the shaking of an olive tree, __and__ as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done. +14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, they shall cry aloud from the sea. +15 Wherefore glorify ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the fires, __even__ the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel in the isles of the sea. +16 ¶ From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, __even__ glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. +17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, __are__ upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. +18 And it shall come to pass, __that__ he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. +19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. +20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again. +21 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall punish the host of the high ones __that__ __are__ on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. +22 And they shall be gathered together, __as__ prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. +23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 O LORD, thou __art__ my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful __things;__ __thy__ counsels of old __are__ faithfulness __and__ truth. +2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; __of__ a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. +3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. +4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones __is__ as a storm __against__ the wall. +5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; __even__ the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low. +6 ¶ And in this mountain shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. +7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. +8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken __it__. +9 ¶ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this __is__ our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. +10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. +11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth __his__ __hands__ to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. +12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, __and__ bring to the ground, __even__ to the dust. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will __God__ appoint __for__ walls and bulwarks. +2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in. +3 Thou wilt keep __him__ in perfect peace, __whose__ mind __is__ stayed __on__ __thee:__ because he trusteth in thee. +4 Trust ye in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for ever: for in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ JEHOVAH __is__ everlasting strength: +5 ¶ For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, __even__ to the ground; he bringeth it __even__ to the dust. +6 The foot shall tread it down, __even__ the feet of the poor, __and__ the steps of the needy. +7 The way of the just __is__ uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. +8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, have we waited for thee; the desire of __our__ soul __is__ to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. +9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments __are__ in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. +10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, __yet__ will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __when__ thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: __but__ they shall see, and be ashamed for __their__ envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them. +12 ¶ $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. +13 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, __other__ lords beside thee have had dominion over us: __but__ by thee only will we make mention of thy name. +14 __They__ __are__ dead, they shall not live; __they__ __are__ deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. +15 Thou hast increased the nation, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed __it__ far __unto__ all the ends of the earth. +16 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer __when__ thy chastening __was__ upon them. +17 Like as a woman with child, __that__ draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, __and__ crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. +19 Thy dead __men__ shall live, __together__ __with__ my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew __is__ __as__ the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. +20 ¶ Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. +21 For, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 IN that day the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that __is__ in the sea. +2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. +3 I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest __any__ hurt it, I will keep it night and day. +4 Fury __is__ not in me: who would set the briers __and__ thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. +5 Or let him take hold of my strength, __that__ he may make peace with me; __and__ he shall make peace with me. +6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. +7 ¶ Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? __or__ is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? +8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. +9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this __is__ all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. +10 Yet the defenced city __shall__ __be__ desolate, __and__ the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. +11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, __and__ set them on fire: for it __is__ a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. +12 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. +13 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the holy mount at Jerusalem. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty __is__ a fading flower, which __are__ on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! +2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, __which__ as a tempest of hail __and__ a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. +3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet: +4 And the glorious beauty, which __is__ on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, __and__ as the hasty fruit before the summer; which __when__ he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. +5 ¶ In that day shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, +6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. +7 ¶ But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble __in__ judgment. +8 For all tables are full of vomit __and__ filthiness, __so__ __that__ __there__ __is__ no place __clean__. +9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? __them__ __that__ __are__ weaned from the milk, __and__ drawn from the breasts. +10 For precept __must__ __be__ upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, __and__ there a little: +11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. +12 To whom he said, This __is__ the rest __wherewith__ ye may cause the weary to rest; and this __is__ the refreshing: yet they would not hear. +13 But the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, __and__ there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. +14 ¶ Wherefore hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye scornful men, that rule this people which __is__ in Jerusalem. +15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: +16 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner __stone__, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. +17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. +18 ¶ And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. +19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only __to__ understand the report. +20 For the bed is shorter than that __a__ __man__ can stretch himself __on__ __it:__ and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself __in__ __it__. +21 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall rise up as __in__ mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as __in__ the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. +22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. +23 ¶ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. +24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? +25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? +26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, __and__ doth teach him. +27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. +28 Bread __corn__ is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break __it__ __with__ the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it __with__ his horsemen. +29 This also cometh forth from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, __which__ is wonderful in counsel, __and__ excellent in working. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 WOE to Ariel, to Ariel, the city __where__ David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. +2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. +3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. +4 And thou shalt be brought down, __and__ shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. +5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones __shall__ __be__ as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. +6 Thou shalt be visited of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. +7 ¶ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. +8 It shall even be as when an hungry __man__ dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, __he__ __is__ faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion. +9 ¶ Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. +10 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. +11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which __men__ deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it __is__ sealed: +12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. +13 ¶ Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near __me__ with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: +14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, __even__ a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise __men__ shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent __men__ shall be hid. +15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? +16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? +17 __Is__ it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? +18 ¶ And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. +19 The meek also shall increase __their__ joy in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. +20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: +21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought. +22 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. +23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. +24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 WOE to the rebellious children, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin: +2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! +3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt __your__ confusion. +4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. +5 They were all ashamed of a people __that__ could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. +6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence __come__ the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people __that__ shall not profit __them__. +7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength __is__ to sit still. +8 ¶ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: +9 That this __is__ a rebellious people, lying children, children __that__ will not hear the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: +11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. +12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: +13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. +14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water __withal__ out of the pit. +15 For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. +16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. +17 One thousand __shall__ __flee__ at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill. +18 ¶ And therefore will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ a God of judgment: blessed __are__ all they that wait for him. +19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. +20 And __though__ the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: +21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This __is__ the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. +22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. +23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures. +24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan. +25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers __and__ streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. +26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. +27 ¶ Behold, the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cometh from far, burning __with__ his anger, and the burden __thereof__ __is__ heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: +28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and __there__ __shall__ __be__ a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing __them__ to err. +29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night __when__ a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to the mighty One of Israel. +30 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of __his__ anger, and __with__ the flame of a devouring fire, __with__ scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. +31 For through the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall the Assyrian be beaten down, __which__ smote with a rod. +32 And __in__ every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall lay upon him, __it__ shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. +33 For Tophet __is__ ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made __it__ deep __and__ large: the pile thereof __is__ fire and much wood; the breath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 WOE to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because __they__ __are__ many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$! +2 Yet he also __is__ wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. +3 Now the Egyptians __are__ men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. +4 For thus hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, __he__ will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. +5 As birds flying, so will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver __it;__ __and__ passing over he will preserve __it__. +6 ¶ Turn ye unto __him__ __from__ whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. +7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you __for__ a sin. +8 ¶ Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited. +9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, whose fire __is__ in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +1 BEHOLD, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. +2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. +3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. +4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. +5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said __to__ __be__ bountiful. +6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. +7 The instruments also of the churl __are__ evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. +8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. +9 ¶ Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech. +10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come. +11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird __sackcloth__ upon __your__ loins. +12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. +13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns __and__ briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy __in__ the joyous city: +14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; +15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest. +16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. +17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. +18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places; +19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place. +20 Blessed __are__ ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth __thither__ the feet of the ox and the ass. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 WOE to thee that spoilest, and thou __wast__ not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; __and__ when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. +2 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. +3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered. +4 And your spoil shall be gathered __like__ the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them. +5 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. +6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, __and__ strength of salvation: the fear of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ his treasure. +7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly. +8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man. +9 The earth mourneth __and__ languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed __and__ hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off __their__ __fruits__. +10 Now will I rise, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. +11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, __as__ fire, shall devour you. +12 And the people shall be __as__ the burnings of lime: __as__ thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. +13 ¶ Hear, ye __that__ __are__ far off, what I have done; and, ye __that__ __are__ near, acknowledge my might. +14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? +15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; +16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence __shall__ __be__ the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters __shall__ __be__ sure. +17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. +18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where __is__ the scribe? where __is__ the receiver? where __is__ he that counted the towers? +19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, __that__ __thou__ __canst__ not understand. +20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle __that__ shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. +21 But there the glorious $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __will__ __be__ unto us a place of broad rivers __and__ streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. +22 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ our judge, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ our lawgiver, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ our king; he will save us. +23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. +24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein __shall__ __be__ forgiven __their__ iniquity. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +1 COME near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. +2 For the indignation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ upon all nations, and __his__ fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. +3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. +4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling __fig__ from the fig tree. +5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. +6 The sword of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, __and__ with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. +7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. +8 For __it__ __is__ the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s vengeance, __and__ the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. +9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. +10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. +11 ¶ But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. +12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none __shall__ __be__ there, and all her princes shall be nothing. +13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, __and__ a court for owls. +14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. +15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. +16 ¶ Seek ye out of the book of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. +17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein. +:::SET CHAPTER 35 +1 THE wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. +2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ the excellency of our God. +3 ¶ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. +4 Say to them __that__ __are__ of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come __with__ vengeance, __even__ God __with__ a recompence; he will come and save you. +5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. +6 Then shall the lame __man__ leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. +7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, __shall__ __be__ grass with reeds and rushes. +8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it __shall__ __be__ for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err __therein__. +9 No lion shall be there, nor __any__ ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk __there:__ +10 And the ransomed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. +:::SET CHAPTER 36 +1 NOW it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, __that__ Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. +2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. +3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. +4 ¶ And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence __is__ this wherein thou trustest? +5 I say, __sayest__ __thou__, (but __they__ __are__ __but__ vain words) __I__ __have__ counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? +6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so __is__ Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. +7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God: __is__ __it__ not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? +8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. +9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? +10 And am I now come up without the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ against this land to destroy it? the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. +11 ¶ Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand __it:__ and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that __are__ on the wall. +12 ¶ But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? __hath__ __he__ not __sent__ __me__ to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? +13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. +14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. +15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. +16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make __an__ __agreement__ with me __by__ a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; +17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. +18 __Beware__ lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? +19 Where __are__ the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where __are__ the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? +20 Who __are__ __they__ among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? +21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. +22 ¶ Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that __was__ over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with __their__ clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. +:::SET CHAPTER 37 +1 AND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard __it__, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 And he sent Eliakim, who __was__ over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. +3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day __is__ a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and __there__ __is__ not strength to bring forth. +4 It may be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up __thy__ prayer for the remnant that is left. +5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. +6 ¶ And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. +7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. +8 ¶ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. +9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard __it__, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, +10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. +11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? +12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, __as__ Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which __were__ in Telassar? +13 Where __is__ the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? +14 ¶ And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and spread it before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +16 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest __between__ the cherubims, thou __art__ the God, __even__ thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. +17 Incline thine ear, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and hear; open thine eyes, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God. +18 Of a truth, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, +19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they __were__ no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. +20 Now therefore, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou __art__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ thou only. +21 ¶ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: +22 This __is__ the word which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, __and__ laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. +23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted __thy__ voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? __even__ against the Holy One of Israel. +24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, __and__ the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, __and__ the forest of his Carmel. +25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. +26 Hast thou not heard long ago, __how__ I have done it; __and__ of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities __into__ ruinous heaps. +27 Therefore their inhabitants __were__ of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were __as__ the grass of the field, and __as__ the green herb, __as__ the grass on the housetops, and __as__ __corn__ blasted before it be grown up. +28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. +29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. +30 And this __shall__ __be__ a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat __this__ year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. +31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: +32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts shall do this. +33 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. +34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. +36 Then the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they __were__ all dead corpses. +37 ¶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. +38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. +:::SET CHAPTER 38 +1 IN those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. +2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +3 And said, Remember now, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done __that__ __which__ __is__ good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. +4 ¶ Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to Isaiah, saying, +5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. +6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. +7 And this __shall__ __be__ a sign unto thee from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will do this thing that he hath spoken; +8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. +9 ¶ The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: +10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. +11 I said, I shall not see the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. +12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day __even__ to night wilt thou make an end of me. +13 I reckoned till morning, __that__, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day __even__ to night wilt thou make an end of me. +14 Like a crane __or__ a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail __with__ __looking__ upward: O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I am oppressed; undertake for me. +15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done __it:__ I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. +16 O Lord, by these __things__ __men__ live, and in all these __things__ __is__ the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. +17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul __delivered__ __it__ from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. +18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can __not__ celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. +19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I __do__ this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. +20 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __was__ __ready__ to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay __it__ for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover. +22 Hezekiah also had said, What __is__ the sign that I shall go up to the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +:::SET CHAPTER 39 +1 AT that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. +2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. +3 ¶ Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, __even__ from Babylon. +4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that __is__ in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. +5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: +6 Behold, the days come, that all that __is__ in thine house, and __that__ which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. +8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good __is__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days. +:::SET CHAPTER 40 +1 COMFORT ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. +2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s hand double for all her sins. +3 ¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. +4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: +5 And the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see __it__ together: for the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken __it__. +6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh __is__ grass, and all the goodliness thereof __is__ as the flower of the field: +7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bloweth upon it: surely the people __is__ grass. +8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. +9 ¶ O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift __it__ up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! +10 Behold, the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ will come with strong __hand__, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward __is__ with him, and his work before him. +11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry __them__ in his bosom, __and__ shall gently lead those that are with young. +12 ¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? +13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, or __being__ his counseller hath taught him? +14 With whom took he counsel, and __who__ instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? +15 Behold, the nations __are__ as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. +16 And Lebanon __is__ not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. +17 All nations before him __are__ as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. +18 ¶ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? +19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. +20 He that __is__ so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree __that__ will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, __that__ shall not be moved. +21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? +22 __It__ __is__ he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof __are__ as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: +23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. +24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. +25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. +26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these __things__, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that __he__ __is__ strong in power; not one faileth. +27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and my judgment is passed over from my God? +28 ¶ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, __that__ the everlasting God, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? __there__ __is__ no searching of his understanding. +29 He giveth power to the faint; and to __them__ __that__ __have__ no might he increaseth strength. +30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: +31 But they that wait upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall renew __their__ strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; __and__ they shall walk, and not faint. +:::SET CHAPTER 41 +1 KEEP silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew __their__ strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment. +2 Who raised up the righteous __man__ from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made __him__ rule over kings? he gave __them__ as the dust to his sword, __and__ as driven stubble to his bow. +3 He pursued them, __and__ passed safely; __even__ by the way __that__ he had not gone with his feet. +4 Who hath wrought and done __it__, calling the generations from the beginning? I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the first, and with the last; I __am__ he. +5 The isles saw __it__, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. +6 They helped every one his neighbour; and __every__ __one__ said to his brother, Be of good courage. +7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, __and__ he that smootheth __with__ the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It __is__ ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, __that__ it should not be moved. +8 But thou, Israel, __art__ my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. +9 __Thou__ whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou __art__ my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. +10 ¶ Fear thou not; for I __am__ with thee: be not dismayed; for I __am__ thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. +11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. +12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, __even__ them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. +13 For I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. +14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, __and__ ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. +15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat __them__ small, and shalt make the hills as chaff. +16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. +17 __When__ the poor and needy seek water, and __there__ __is__ none, __and__ their tongue faileth for thirst, I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will hear them, __I__ the God of Israel will not forsake them. +18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. +19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, __and__ the pine, and the box tree together: +20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it. +21 Produce your cause, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; bring forth your strong __reasons__, saith the King of Jacob. +22 Let them bring __them__ forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they __be__, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. +23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye __are__ gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold __it__ together. +24 Behold, ye __are__ of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination __is__ __he__ __that__ chooseth you. +25 I have raised up __one__ from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as __upon__ morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. +26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, __He__ __is__ righteous? yea, __there__ __is__ none that sheweth, yea, __there__ __is__ none that declareth, yea, __there__ __is__ none that heareth your words. +27 The first __shall__ __say__ to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings. +28 For I beheld, and __there__ __was__ no man; even among them, and __there__ __was__ no counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. +29 Behold, they __are__ all vanity; their works __are__ nothing: their molten images __are__ wind and confusion. +:::SET CHAPTER 42 +1 BEHOLD my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, __in__ __whom__ my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. +2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. +3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. +4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. +5 ¶ Thus saith God the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: +6 I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; +7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, __and__ them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. +8 I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: that __is__ my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. +9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. +10 Sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ a new song, __and__ his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof. +11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up __their__ __voice__, the villages __that__ Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. +12 Let them give glory unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and declare his praise in the islands. +13 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. +14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, __and__ refrained myself: __now__ will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. +15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. +16 And I will bring the blind by a way __that__ they knew not; I will lead them in paths __that__ they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. +17 ¶ They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye __are__ our gods. +18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. +19 Who __is__ blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger __that__ I sent? who __is__ blind as __he__ __that__ __is__ perfect, and blind as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s servant? +20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. +21 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make __it__ honourable. +22 But this __is__ a people robbed and spoiled; __they__ __are__ all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. +23 Who among you will give ear to this? __who__ will hearken and hear for the time to come? +24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. +25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid __it__ not to heart. +:::SET CHAPTER 43 +1 BUT now thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called __thee__ by thy name; thou __art__ mine. +2 When thou passest through the waters, I __will__ __be__ with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. +3 For I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt __for__ thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. +4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. +5 Fear not: for I __am__ with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; +6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; +7 __Even__ every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. +8 ¶ Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. +9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, __It__ __is__ truth. +10 Ye __are__ my witnesses, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I __am__ he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. +11 I, __even__ I, __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and beside me __there__ __is__ no saviour. +12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when __there__ __was__ no strange __god__ among you: therefore ye __are__ my witnesses, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I __am__ God. +13 Yea, before the day __was__ I __am__ he; and __there__ __is__ none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? +14 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry __is__ in the ships. +15 I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. +16 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; +17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. +18 ¶ Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. +19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, __and__ rivers in the desert. +20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, __and__ rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. +21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. +22 ¶ But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. +23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. +24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. +25 I, __even__ I, __am__ he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. +26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified. +27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. +28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches. +:::SET CHAPTER 44 +1 YET now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, __which__ will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. +3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: +4 And they shall spring up __as__ among the grass, as willows by the water courses. +5 One shall say, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s; and another shall call __himself__ by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe __with__ his hand unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and surname __himself__ by the name of Israel. +6 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the King of Israel, and his redeemer the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; I __am__ the first, and I __am__ the last; and beside me __there__ __is__ no God. +7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. +8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared __it?__ ye __are__ even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, __there__ __is__ no God; I know not __any__. +9 ¶ They that make a graven image __are__ all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they __are__ their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed. +10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image __that__ is profitable for nothing? +11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they __are__ of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; __yet__ they shall fear, __and__ they shall be ashamed together. +12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. +13 The carpenter stretcheth out __his__ rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. +14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish __it__. +15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth __it__, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth __it;__ he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto. +16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth __himself__, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: +17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, __even__ his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth __it__, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou __art__ my god. +18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; __and__ their hearts, that they cannot understand. +19 And none considereth in his heart, neither __is__ __there__ knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten __it:__ and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? +20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, __Is__ __there__ not a lie in my right hand? +21 ¶ Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou __art__ my servant: I have formed thee; thou __art__ my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. +22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. +23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath done __it:__ shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel. +24 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that maketh all __things;__ that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; +25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise __men__ backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish; +26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof: +27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: +28 That saith of Cyrus, __He__ __is__ my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid. +:::SET CHAPTER 45 +1 THUS saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; +2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: +3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which call __thee__ by thy name, __am__ the God of Israel. +4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. +5 ¶ I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and __there__ __is__ none else, __there__ __is__ no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: +6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that __there__ __is__ none beside me. I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and __there__ __is__ none else. +7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do all these __things__. +8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have created it. +9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! __Let__ the potsherd __strive__ with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? +10 Woe unto him that saith unto __his__ father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? +11 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. +12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, __even__ my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. +13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +14 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, __saying__, Surely God __is__ in thee; and __there__ __is__ none else, __there__ __is__ no God. +15 Verily thou __art__ a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. +16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together __that__ __are__ makers of idols. +17 __But__ Israel shall be saved in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. +18 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and __there__ __is__ none else. +19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. +20 ¶ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye __that__ __are__ escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god __that__ cannot save. +21 Tell ye, and bring __them__ near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? __who__ hath told it from that time? __have__ not I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? and __there__ __is__ no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; __there__ __is__ none beside me. +22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I __am__ God, and __there__ __is__ none else. +23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth __in__ righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. +24 Surely, shall __one__ say, in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have I righteousness and strength: __even__ to him shall __men__ come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. +25 In the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. +:::SET CHAPTER 46 +1 BEL boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages __were__ heavy loaden; __they__ __are__ a burden to the weary __beast__. +2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. +3 ¶ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne __by__ __me__ from the belly, which are carried from the womb: +4 And __even__ to __your__ old age I __am__ he; and __even__ to hoar hairs will I carry __you:__ I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver __you__. +5 ¶ To whom will ye liken me, and make __me__ equal, and compare me, that we may be like? +6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, __and__ hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. +7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, __one__ shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. +8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring __it__ again to mind, O ye transgressors. +9 Remember the former things of old: for I __am__ God, and __there__ __is__ none else; __I__ __am__ God, and __there__ __is__ none like me, +10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times __the__ __things__ that are not __yet__ done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: +11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken __it__, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed __it__, I will also do it. +12 ¶ Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that __are__ far from righteousness: +13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory. +:::SET CHAPTER 47 +1 COME down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: __there__ __is__ no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. +2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. +3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet __thee__ __as__ a man. +4 __As__ __for__ our redeemer, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ his name, the Holy One of Israel. +5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms. +6 ¶ I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. +7 ¶ And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: __so__ that thou didst not lay these __things__ to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. +8 Therefore hear now this, __thou__ __that__ __art__ given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I __am__, and none else beside me; I shall not sit __as__ a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: +9 But these two __things__ shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, __and__ for the great abundance of thine enchantments. +10 ¶ For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I __am__, and none else beside me. +11 ¶ Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, __which__ thou shalt not know. +12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. +13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from __these__ __things__ that shall come upon thee. +14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: __there__ __shall__ not __be__ a coal to warm at, __nor__ fire to sit before it. +15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, __even__ thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 48 +1 HEAR ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and make mention of the God of Israel, __but__ not in truth, nor in righteousness. +2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ his name. +3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did __them__ suddenly, and they came to pass. +4 Because I knew that thou __art__ obstinate, and thy neck __is__ an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; +5 I have even from the beginning declared __it__ to thee; before it came to pass I shewed __it__ thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. +6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare __it?__ I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. +7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. +8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time __that__ thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. +9 ¶ For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. +10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. +11 For mine own sake, __even__ for mine own sake, will I do __it:__ for how should __my__ __name__ be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. +12 ¶ Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I __am__ he; I __am__ the first, I also __am__ the last. +13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: __when__ I call unto them, they stand up together. +14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these __things?__ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm __shall__ __be__ __on__ the Chaldeans. +15 I, __even__ I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. +16 ¶ Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there __am__ I: and now the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, and his Spirit, hath sent me. +17 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way __that__ thou shouldest go. +18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: +19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. +20 ¶ Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it __even__ to the end of the earth; say ye, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath redeemed his servant Jacob. +21 And they thirsted not __when__ he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. +22 __There__ __is__ no peace, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, unto the wicked. +:::SET CHAPTER 49 +1 LISTEN, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. +2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; +3 And said unto me, Thou __art__ my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. +4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: __yet__ surely my judgment __is__ with the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and my work with my God. +5 ¶ And now, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that formed me from the womb __to__ __be__ his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and my God shall be my strength. +6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. +7 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the Redeemer of Israel, __and__ his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that is faithful, __and__ the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee. +8 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; +9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that __are__ in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures __shall__ __be__ in all high places. +10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them. +11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. +12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. +13 ¶ Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. +14 But Zion said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. +15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. +16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of __my__ hands; thy walls __are__ continually before me. +17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. +18 ¶ Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, __and__ come to thee. __As__ I live, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them __on__ __thee__, as a bride __doeth__. +19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away. +20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place __is__ too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell. +21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where __had__ they __been?__ +22 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in __their__ arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon __their__ shoulders. +23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with __their__ face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. +24 ¶ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? +25 But thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. +26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __am__ thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. +:::SET CHAPTER 50 +1 THUS saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Where __is__ the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors __is__ __it__ to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. +2 Wherefore, when I came, __was__ __there__ no man? when I called, __was__ __there__ none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because __there__ __is__ no water, and dieth for thirst. +3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. +4 The Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to __him__ __that__ __is__ weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. +5 ¶ The Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. +6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. +7 ¶ For the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. +8 __He__ __is__ near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who __is__ mine adversary? let him come near to me. +9 Behold, the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ will help me; who __is__ he __that__ shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. +10 ¶ Who __is__ among you that feareth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh __in__ darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and stay upon his God. +11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass __yourselves__ about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks __that__ ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow. +:::SET CHAPTER 51 +1 HEARKEN to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: look unto the rock __whence__ ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit __whence__ ye are digged. +2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah __that__ bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. +3 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody. +4 ¶ Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. +5 My righteousness __is__ near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. +6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. +7 ¶ Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart __is__ my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. +8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. +9 ¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. __Art__ thou not it that hath cut Rahab, __and__ wounded the dragon? +10 __Art__ thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? +11 Therefore the redeemed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy __shall__ __be__ upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; __and__ sorrow and mourning shall flee away. +12 I, __even__ I, __am__ he that comforteth you: who __art__ thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man __that__ shall die, and of the son of man __which__ shall be made __as__ grass; +13 And forgettest the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where __is__ the fury of the oppressor? +14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. +15 But I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ his name. +16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou __art__ my people. +17 ¶ Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, __and__ wrung __them__ out. +18 __There__ __is__ none to guide her among all the sons __whom__ she hath brought forth; neither __is__ __there__ __any__ that taketh her by the hand of all the sons __that__ she hath brought up. +19 These two __things__ are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? +20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the rebuke of thy God. +21 ¶ Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: +22 Thus saith thy Lord the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and thy God __that__ pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, __even__ the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: +23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. +:::SET CHAPTER 52 +1 AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. +2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, __and__ sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. +3 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. +4 For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. +5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and my name continually every day __is__ blasphemed. +6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore __they__ __shall__ __know__ in that day that I __am__ he that doth speak: behold, __it__ __is__ I. +7 ¶ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! +8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall bring again Zion. +9 ¶ Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. +10 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. +11 ¶ Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean __thing;__ go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will go before you; and the God of Israel __will__ __be__ your rereward. +13 ¶ Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. +14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: +15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for __that__ which had not been told them shall they see; and __that__ which they had not heard shall they consider. +:::SET CHAPTER 53 +1 WHO hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ revealed? +2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, __there__ __is__ no beauty that we should desire him. +3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were __our__ faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. +4 ¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. +5 But he __was__ wounded for our transgressions, __he__ __was__ bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace __was__ upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. +6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. +7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. +8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. +9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither __was__ __any__ deceit in his mouth. +10 ¶ Yet it pleased the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to bruise him; he hath put __him__ to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see __his__ seed, he shall prolong __his__ days, and the pleasure of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall prosper in his hand. +11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, __and__ shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. +12 Therefore will I divide him __a__ __portion__ with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. +:::SET CHAPTER 54 +1 SING, O barren, thou __that__ didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou __that__ didst not travail with child: for more __are__ the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; +3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. +4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. +5 For thy Maker __is__ thine husband; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. +6 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. +7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. +8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy Redeemer. +9 For this __is__ __as__ the waters of Noah unto me: for __as__ I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. +10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that hath mercy on thee. +11 ¶ O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, __and__ not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. +12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. +13 And all thy children __shall__ __be__ taught of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and great __shall__ __be__ the peace of thy children. +14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. +15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, __but__ not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. +16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. +17 ¶ No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue __that__ shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This __is__ the heritage of the servants of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and their righteousness __is__ of me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 55 +1 HO, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. +2 Wherefore do ye spend money for __that__ __which__ __is__ not bread? and your labour for __that__ __which__ satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye __that__ __which__ __is__ good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. +3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, __even__ the sure mercies of David. +4 Behold, I have given him __for__ a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. +5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation __that__ thou knowest not, and nations __that__ knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. +6 ¶ Seek ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: +7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. +8 ¶ For my thoughts __are__ not your thoughts, neither __are__ your ways my ways, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 For __as__ the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. +10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: +11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper __in__ __the__ __thing__ whereto I sent it. +12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap __their__ hands. +13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for a name, for an everlasting sign __that__ shall not be cut off. +:::SET CHAPTER 56 +1 THUS saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation __is__ near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. +2 Blessed __is__ the man __that__ doeth this, and the son of man __that__ layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. +3 ¶ Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, speak, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I __am__ a dry tree. +4 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose __the__ __things__ that please me, and take hold of my covenant; +5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. +6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to serve him, and to love the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; +7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices __shall__ __be__ accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. +8 The Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather __others__ to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. +9 ¶ All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, __yea__, all ye beasts in the forest. +10 His watchmen __are__ blind: they are all ignorant, they __are__ all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. +11 Yea, __they__ __are__ greedy dogs __which__ can never have enough, and they __are__ shepherds __that__ cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. +12 Come ye, __say__ __they__, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, __and__ much more abundant. +:::SET CHAPTER 57 +1 THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth __it__ to heart: and merciful men __are__ taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil __to__ __come__. +2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, __each__ __one__ walking __in__ his uprightness. +3 ¶ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. +4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, __and__ draw out the tongue? __are__ ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, +5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? +6 Among the smooth __stones__ of the stream __is__ thy portion; they, they __are__ thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? +7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. +8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered __thyself__ __to__ __another__ than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee __a__ __covenant__ with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest __it__. +9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase __thyself__ __even__ unto hell. +10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; __yet__ saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved. +11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid __it__ to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not? +12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. +13 ¶ When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take __them:__ but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain; +14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. +15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name __is__ Holy; I dwell in the high and holy __place__, with him also __that__ __is__ of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. +16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls __which__ I have made. +17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. +18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. +19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to __him__ __that__ __is__ far off, and to __him__ __that__ __is__ near, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and I will heal him. +20 But the wicked __are__ like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. +21 __There__ __is__ no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. +:::SET CHAPTER 58 +1 CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. +2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. +3 ¶ Wherefore have we fasted, __say__ __they__, and thou seest not? __wherefore__ have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. +4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as __ye__ __do__ __this__ day, to make your voice to be heard on high. +5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? __is__ __it__ to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes __under__ __him?__ wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +6 __Is__ not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? +7 __Is__ __it__ not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? +8 ¶ Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be thy rereward. +9 Then shalt thou call, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I __am__. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; +10 And __if__ thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness __be__ as the noonday: +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. +12 And __they__ __that__ __shall__ __be__ of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. +13 ¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, __from__ doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking __thine__ __own__ words: +14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 59 +1 BEHOLD, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: +2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid __his__ face from you, that he will not hear. +3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. +4 None calleth for justice, nor __any__ pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. +5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. +6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works __are__ works of iniquity, and the act of violence __is__ in their hands. +7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts __are__ thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction __are__ in their paths. +8 The way of peace they know not; and __there__ __is__ no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. +9 ¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, __but__ we walk in darkness. +10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if __we__ __had__ no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; __we__ __are__ in desolate places as dead __men__. +11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but __there__ __is__ none; for salvation, __but__ it is far off from us. +12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions __are__ with us; and __as__ __for__ our iniquities, we know them; +13 In transgressing and lying against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. +14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. +15 Yea, truth faileth; and he __that__ departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saw __it__, and it displeased him that __there__ __was__ no judgment. +16 ¶ And he saw that __there__ __was__ no man, and wondered that __there__ __was__ no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. +17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance __for__ clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. +18 According to __their__ deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence. +19 So shall they fear the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall lift up a standard against him. +20 ¶ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 As for me, this __is__ my covenant with them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; My spirit that __is__ upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, from henceforth and for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 60 +1 ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is risen upon thee. +2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. +3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. +4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at __thy__ side. +5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. +6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. +8 Who __are__ these __that__ fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? +9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee. +10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. +11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that __men__ may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and __that__ their kings __may__ __be__ brought. +12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, __those__ nations shall be utterly wasted. +13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. +14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. +15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through __thee__, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. +16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __am__ thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. +17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. +18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. +19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. +20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. +21 Thy people also __shall__ __be__ all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. +22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will hasten it in his time. +:::SET CHAPTER 61 +1 THE Spirit of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ __is__ upon me; because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to __them__ __that__ __are__ bound; +2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; +3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he might be glorified. +4 ¶ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. +5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien __shall__ __be__ your plowmen and your vinedressers. +6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __men__ shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. +7 ¶ For your shame __ye__ __shall__ __have__ double; and __for__ confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them. +8 For I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. +9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they __are__ the seed __which__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath blessed. +10 I will greatly rejoice in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh __himself__ with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth __herself__ with her jewels. +11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. +:::SET CHAPTER 62 +1 FOR Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp __that__ burneth. +2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall name. +3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. +4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. +5 ¶ For __as__ a young man marrieth a virgin, __so__ shall thy sons marry thee: and __as__ the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, __so__ shall thy God rejoice over thee. +6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, __which__ shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, keep not silence, +7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn __to__ __be__ meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: +9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. +10 ¶ Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. +11 Behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward __is__ with him, and his work before him. +12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. +:::SET CHAPTER 63 +1 WHO __is__ this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this __that__ __is__ glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. +2 Wherefore __art__ __thou__ red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? +3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people __there__ __was__ none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. +4 For the day of vengeance __is__ in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. +5 And I looked, and __there__ __was__ none to help; and I wondered that __there__ __was__ none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. +6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth. +7 ¶ I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ the praises of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. +8 For he said, Surely they __are__ my people, children __that__ will not lie: so he was their Saviour. +9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. +10 ¶ But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, __and__ he fought against them. +11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, __and__ his people, __saying__, Where __is__ he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where __is__ he that put his holy Spirit within him? +12 That led __them__ by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? +13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, __that__ they should not stumble? +14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name. +15 ¶ Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where __is__ thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained? +16 Doubtless thou __art__ our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __art__ our father, our redeemer; thy name __is__ from everlasting. +17 ¶ O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, __and__ hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance. +18 The people of thy holiness have possessed __it__ but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. +19 We are __thine:__ thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name. +:::SET CHAPTER 64 +1 OH that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, +2 As __when__ the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, __that__ the nations may tremble at thy presence! +3 When thou didst terrible things __which__ we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. +4 For since the beginning of the world __men__ have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, __what__ he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. +5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, __those__ __that__ remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. +6 But we are all as an unclean __thing__, and all our righteousnesses __are__ as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. +7 And __there__ __is__ none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. +8 But now, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou __art__ our father; we __are__ the clay, and thou our potter; and we all __are__ the work of thy hand. +9 ¶ Be not wroth very sore, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we __are__ all thy people. +10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. +11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. +12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these __things__, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? +:::SET CHAPTER 65 +1 I AM sought of __them__ __that__ asked not __for__ __me;__ I am found of __them__ __that__ sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation __that__ was not called by my name. +2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way __that__ __was__ not good, after their own thoughts; +3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; +4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable __things__ __is__ __in__ their vessels; +5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These __are__ a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. +6 Behold, __it__ __is__ written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, +7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom. +8 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and __one__ saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing __is__ in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. +9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. +10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me. +11 ¶ But ye __are__ they that forsake the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. +12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose __that__ wherein I delighted not. +13 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: +14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. +15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name: +16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. +17 ¶ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. +18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever __in__ __that__ which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. +19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. +20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner __being__ an hundred years old shall be accursed. +21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit __them;__ and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. +22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree __are__ the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. +23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they __are__ the seed of the blessed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and their offspring with them. +24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. +25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust __shall__ __be__ the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 66 +1 THUS saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, The heaven __is__ my throne, and the earth __is__ my footstool: where __is__ the house that ye build unto me? and where __is__ the place of my rest? +2 For all those __things__ hath mine hand made, and all those __things__ have been, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but to this __man__ will I look, __even__ to __him__ __that__ __is__ poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. +3 He that killeth an ox __is__ __as__ __if__ he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, __as__ __if__ he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, __as__ __if__ __he__ __offered__ swine's blood; he that burneth incense, __as__ __if__ he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. +4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose __that__ in which I delighted not. +5 ¶ Hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. +6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that rendereth recompence to his enemies. +7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. +8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? __or__ shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. +9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut __the__ __womb?__ saith thy God. +10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: +11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. +12 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon __her__ sides, and be dandled upon __her__ knees. +13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. +14 And when ye see __this__, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be known toward his servants, and __his__ indignation toward his enemies. +15 For, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. +16 For by fire and by his sword will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ plead with all flesh: and the slain of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be many. +17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one __tree__ in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 For I __know__ their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. +19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, __to__ Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, __to__ Tubal, and Javan, __to__ the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. +20 And they shall bring all your brethren __for__ an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 And I will also take of them for priests __and__ for Levites, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, so shall your seed and your name remain. +23 And it shall come to pass, __that__ from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. +:::SET BOOK Jeremiah +:::SET TITLE The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that __were__ in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: +2 To whom the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. +3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. +4 Then the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, __and__ I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. +6 Then said I, Ah, Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$! behold, I cannot speak: for I __am__ a child. +7 ¶ But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Say not, I __am__ a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. +8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I __am__ with thee to deliver thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 Then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. +10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. +11 ¶ Moreover the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. +12 Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. +13 And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof __is__ toward the north. +14 Then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. +15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah. +16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. +17 ¶ Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. +18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. +19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I __am__ with thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to deliver thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 MOREOVER the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to me, saying, +2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land __that__ __was__ not sown. +3 Israel __was__ holiness unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 Hear ye the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: +5 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? +6 Neither said they, Where __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt? +7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. +8 The priests said not, Where __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after __things__ __that__ do not profit. +9 ¶ Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and with your children's children will I plead. +10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. +11 Hath a nation changed __their__ gods, which __are__ yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for __that__ __which__ doth not profit. +12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, __and__ hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. +14 ¶ __Is__ Israel a servant? __is__ he a homeborn __slave?__ why is he spoiled? +15 The young lions roared upon him, __and__ yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. +16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. +17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, when he led thee by the way? +18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? +19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that __it__ __is__ an evil __thing__ and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and that my fear __is__ not in thee, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts. +20 ¶ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, __and__ burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. +21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? +22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, __yet__ thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: __thou__ __art__ a swift dromedary traversing her ways; +24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, __that__ snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her. +25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. +26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, +27 Saying to a stock, Thou __art__ my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned __their__ back unto me, and not __their__ face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. +28 But where __are__ thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for __according__ __to__ the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. +29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. +31 ¶ O generation, see ye the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? +32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, __or__ a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. +33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. +34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. +35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned. +36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. +37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THEY say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness. +3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed. +4 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou __art__ the guide of my youth? +5 Will he reserve __his__ __anger__ for ever? will he keep __it__ to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest. +6 ¶ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen __that__ which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. +7 And I said after she had done all these __things__, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw __it__. +8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. +9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. +10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. +12 ¶ Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; __and__ I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I __am__ merciful, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ I will not keep __anger__ for ever. +13 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: +15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. +16 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit __it;__ neither shall __that__ be done any more. +17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. +18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. +19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me. +20 ¶ Surely __as__ a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping __and__ supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, __and__ they have forgotten the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God. +22 Return, ye backsliding children, __and__ I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou __art__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +23 Truly in vain __is__ __salvation__ __hoped__ __for__ from the hills, __and__ __from__ the multitude of mountains: truly in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God __is__ the salvation of Israel. +24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. +25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 IF thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. +2 And thou shalt swear, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. +3 ¶ For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. +4 Circumcise yourselves to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench __it__, because of the evil of your doings. +5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. +6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. +7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; __and__ thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. +8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is not turned back from us. +9 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __that__ the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. +10 Then said I, Ah, Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. +11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, +12 __Even__ a full wind from those __places__ shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. +13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots __shall__ __be__ as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled. +14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? +15 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. +16 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, __that__ watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. +17 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 Thy way and thy doings have procured these __things__ unto thee; this __is__ thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart. +19 ¶ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. +20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, __and__ my curtains in a moment. +21 How long shall I see the standard, __and__ hear the sound of the trumpet? +22 For my people __is__ foolish, they have not known me; they __are__ sottish children, and they have none understanding: they __are__ wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. +23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, __it__ __was__ without form, and void; and the heavens, and they __had__ no light. +24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. +25 I beheld, and, lo, __there__ __was__ no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. +26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place __was__ a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ by his fierce anger. +27 For thus hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. +28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken __it__, I have purposed __it__, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. +29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city __shall__ __be__ forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. +30 And __when__ thou __art__ spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; __thy__ lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life. +31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, __and__ the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, __that__ bewaileth herself, __that__ spreadeth her hands, __saying__, Woe __is__ me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 RUN ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be __any__ that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. +2 And though they say, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth; surely they swear falsely. +3 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __are__ not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, __but__ they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. +4 Therefore I said, Surely these __are__ poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __nor__ the judgment of their God. +5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, __and__ burst the bonds. +6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, __and__ a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, __and__ their backslidings are increased. +7 ¶ How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by __them__ __that__ __are__ no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. +8 They were __as__ fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. +9 Shall I not visit for these __things?__ saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +10 ¶ Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they __are__ not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s. +11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 They have belied the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, __It__ __is__ not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine: +13 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word __is__ not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. +14 Wherefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. +15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it __is__ a mighty nation, it __is__ an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say. +16 Their quiver __is__ as an open sepulchre, they __are__ all mighty men. +17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, __which__ thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword. +18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I will not make a full end with you. +19 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God all these __things__ unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land __that__ __is__ not yours. +20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, +21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: +22 Fear ye not me? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand __for__ the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? +23 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. +24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. +25 ¶ Your iniquities have turned away these __things__, and your sins have withholden good __things__ from you. +26 For among my people are found wicked __men:__ they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. +27 As a cage is full of birds, so __are__ their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. +28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. +29 Shall I not visit for these __things?__ saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +30 ¶ A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; +31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love __to__ __have__ __it__ so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 O YE children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. +2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate __woman__. +3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch __their__ tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. +4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. +5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. +6 ¶ For thus hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this __is__ the city to be visited; she __is__ wholly oppression in the midst of her. +7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually __is__ grief and wounds. +8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. +9 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets. +10 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear __is__ uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. +11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with __him__ __that__ __is__ full of days. +12 And their houses shall be turned unto others, __with__ __their__ fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one __is__ given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. +14 They have healed also the hurt __of__ __the__ __daughter__ of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when __there__ __is__ no peace. +15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time __that__ I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where __is__ the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk __therein__. +17 Also I set watchmen over you, __saying__, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. +18 ¶ Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what __is__ among them. +19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, __even__ the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. +20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings __are__ not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. +21 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish. +22 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. +23 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they __are__ cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. +24 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, __and__ pain, as of a woman in travail. +25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy __and__ fear __is__ on every side. +26 ¶ O daughter of my people, gird __thee__ with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, __as__ __for__ an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. +27 I have set thee __for__ a tower __and__ a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. +28 They __are__ all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: __they__ __are__ brass and iron; they __are__ all corrupters. +29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. +30 Reprobate silver shall __men__ call them, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath rejected them. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 THE word that came to Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +2 Stand in the gate of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all __ye__ __of__ Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. +4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, The temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, The temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __are__ these. +5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; +6 __If__ ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: +7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. +8 ¶ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. +9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; +10 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? +11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen __it__, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 But go ye now unto my place which __was__ in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. +13 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not; +14 Therefore will I do unto __this__ house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. +15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, __even__ the whole seed of Ephraim. +16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. +17 ¶ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? +18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead __their__ dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. +19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __do__ __they__ not __provoke__ themselves to the confusion of their own faces? +20 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched. +21 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. +22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: +23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. +24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels __and__ in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. +25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending __them:__ +26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. +27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee. +28 But thou shalt say unto them, This __is__ a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. +29 ¶ Cut off thine hair, __O__ __Jerusalem__, and cast __it__ away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. +30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. +31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which __is__ in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded __them__ not, neither came it into my heart. +32 ¶ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place. +33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray __them__ away. +34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AT that time, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: +2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. +3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +4 ¶ Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? +5 Why __then__ is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. +6 I hearkened and heard, __but__ they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. +7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 How do ye say, We __are__ wise, and the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he __it;__ the pen of the scribes __is__ in vain. +9 The wise __men__ are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and what wisdom __is__ in them? +10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, __and__ their fields to them that shall inherit __them:__ for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. +11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when __there__ __is__ no peace. +12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 ¶ I will surely consume them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: __there__ __shall__ __be__ no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and __the__ __things__ __that__ I have given them shall pass away from them. +14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 We looked for peace, but no good __came;__ __and__ for a time of health, and behold trouble! +16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein. +17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which __will__ not __be__ charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 ¶ __When__ I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart __is__ faint in me. +19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: __Is__ not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in Zion? __is__ not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, __and__ with strange vanities? +20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. +21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. +22 __Is__ __there__ no balm in Gilead; __is__ __there__ no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 OH that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! +2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they __be__ all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. +3 And they bend their tongues __like__ their bow __for__ lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. +5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, __and__ weary themselves to commit iniquity. +6 Thine habitation __is__ in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? +8 Their tongue __is__ __as__ an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: __one__ speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. +9 ¶ Shall I not visit them for these __things?__ saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? +10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through __them;__ neither can __men__ hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. +11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, __and__ a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. +12 ¶ Who __is__ the wise man, that may understand this? and __who__ __is__ __he__ to whom the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth __and__ is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; +14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: +15 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, __even__ this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. +16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. +17 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning __women__, that they may come: +18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. +19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast __us__ out. +20 Yet hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. +21 For death is come up into our windows, __and__ is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, __and__ the young men from the streets. +22 Speak, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather __them__. +23 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Let not the wise __man__ glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty __man__ glory in his might, let not the rich __man__ glory in his riches: +24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these __things__ I delight, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +25 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will punish all __them__ __which__ __are__ circumcised with the uncircumcised; +26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all __that__ __are__ in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all __these__ nations __are__ uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel __are__ uncircumcised in the heart. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 HEAR ye the word which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. +3 For the customs of the people __are__ vain: for __one__ cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. +4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. +5 They __are__ upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also __is__ __it__ in them to do good. +6 Forasmuch as __there__ __is__ none like unto thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; thou __art__ great, and thy name __is__ great in might. +7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise __men__ of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, __there__ __is__ none like unto thee. +8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock __is__ a doctrine of vanities. +9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple __is__ their clothing: they __are__ all the work of cunning __men__. +10 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ the true God, he __is__ the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. +11 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, __even__ they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. +12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. +13 When he uttereth his voice, __there__ __is__ a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. +14 Every man is brutish in __his__ knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image __is__ falsehood, and __there__ __is__ no breath in them. +15 They __are__ vanity, __and__ the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. +16 The portion of Jacob __is__ not like them: for he __is__ the former of all __things;__ and Israel __is__ the rod of his inheritance: The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ his name. +17 ¶ Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. +18 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find __it__ __so__. +19 ¶ Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this __is__ a grief, and I must bear it. +20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they __are__ not: __there__ __is__ none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. +21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. +22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, __and__ a den of dragons. +23 ¶ O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I know that the way of man __is__ not in himself: __it__ __is__ not in man that walketh to direct his steps. +24 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. +25 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 THE word that came to Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; +3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel; Cursed __be__ the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, +4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day __that__ I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God: +5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as __it__ __is__ this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 Then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. +7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day __that__ I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, __even__ unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice. +8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded __them__ to do; but they did __them__ not. +9 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers. +11 ¶ Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. +12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble. +13 For __according__ __to__ the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and __according__ __to__ the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to __that__ shameful thing, __even__ altars to burn incense unto Baal. +14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear __them__ in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble. +15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, __seeing__ she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest. +16 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, __and__ of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. +17 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal. +18 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given me knowledge __of__ __it__, and I know __it:__ then thou shewedst me their doings. +19 But I __was__ like a lamb __or__ an ox __that__ is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, __saying__, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. +20 But, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause. +21 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that thou die not by our hand: +22 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: +23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, __even__ the year of their visitation. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 RIGHTEOUS __art__ thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of __thy__ judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? __wherefore__ are all they happy that deal very treacherously? +2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou __art__ near in their mouth, and far from their reins. +3 But thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. +4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end. +5 ¶ If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and __if__ in the land of peace, __wherein__ thou trustedst, __they__ __wearied__ __thee__, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? +6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. +7 ¶ I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. +8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it. +9 Mine heritage __is__ unto me __as__ a speckled bird, the birds round about __are__ against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour. +10 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. +11 They have made it desolate, __and__ __being__ desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth __it__ to heart. +12 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall devour from the __one__ end of the land even to the __other__ end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. +13 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, __but__ shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. +15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land. +16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people. +17 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 THUS saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. +2 So I got a girdle according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and put __it__ on my loins. +3 And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me the second time, saying, +4 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which __is__ upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. +5 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commanded me. +6 And it came to pass after many days, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. +7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. +8 Then the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +9 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. +10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. +11 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear. +12 ¶ Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? +13 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. +14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. +15 ¶ Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken. +16 Give glory to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, __and__ make __it__ gross darkness. +17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for __your__ pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s flock is carried away captive. +18 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, __even__ the crown of your glory. +19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open __them:__ Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. +20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where __is__ the flock __that__ was given thee, thy beautiful flock? +21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them __to__ __be__ captains, __and__ as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? +22 ¶ And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, __and__ thy heels made bare. +23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? __then__ may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. +24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. +25 This __is__ thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. +26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. +27 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, __and__ thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when __shall__ __it__ once __be?__ +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. +2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. +3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, __and__ found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. +4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. +5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook __it__, because there was no grass. +6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because __there__ __was__ no grass. +7 ¶ O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou __it__ for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. +8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man __that__ turneth aside to tarry for a night? +9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man __that__ cannot save? yet thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __art__ in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not. +10 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. +11 Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me, Pray not for this people for __their__ good. +12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. +13 ¶ Then said I, Ah, Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place. +14 Then the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. +15 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. +16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them. +17 ¶ Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow. +18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not. +19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and __there__ __is__ no healing for us? we looked for peace, and __there__ __is__ no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! +20 We acknowledge, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, our wickedness, __and__ the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. +21 Do not abhor __us__, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. +22 Are there __any__ among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? __art__ not thou he, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these __things__. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 THEN said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, __yet__ my mind __could__ not __be__ toward this people: cast __them__ out of my sight, and let them go forth. +2 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Such as __are__ for death, to death; and such as __are__ for the sword, to the sword; and such as __are__ for the famine, to the famine; and such as __are__ for the captivity, to the captivity. +3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. +4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for __that__ which he did in Jerusalem. +5 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest? +6 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. +7 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave __them__ of children, I will destroy my people, __since__ they return not from their ways. +8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused __him__ to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. +9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while __it__ __was__ yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 ¶ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; __yet__ every one of them doth curse me. +11 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee __well__ in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. +12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? +13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and __that__ for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. +14 And I will make __thee__ to pass with thine enemies into a land __which__ thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, __which__ shall burn upon you. +15 ¶ O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. +16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts. +17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. +18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, __which__ refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, __and__ __as__ waters __that__ fail? +19 ¶ Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, __and__ thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. +20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I __am__ with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came also unto me, saying, +2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. +3 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; +4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; __but__ they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. +5 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __even__ lovingkindness and mercies. +6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall __men__ lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: +7 Neither shall __men__ tear __themselves__ for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall __men__ give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. +8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. +9 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. +10 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ pronounced all this great evil against us? or what __is__ our iniquity? or what __is__ our sin that we have committed against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God? +11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; +12 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: +13 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, __neither__ ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour. +14 ¶ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that it shall no more be said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; +15 But, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. +16 ¶ Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. +17 For mine eyes __are__ upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. +18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things. +19 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and __things__ wherein __there__ __is__ no profit. +20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they __are__ no gods? +21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name __is__ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 THE sin of Judah __is__ written with a pen of iron, __and__ with the point of a diamond: __it__ __is__ graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; +2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. +3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance __and__ all thy treasures to the spoil, __and__ thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. +4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, __which__ shall burn for ever. +5 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Cursed __be__ the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, __in__ a salt land and not inhabited. +7 Blessed __is__ the man that trusteth in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and whose hope the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is. +8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and __that__ spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. +9 ¶ The heart __is__ deceitful above all __things__, and desperately wicked: who can know it? +10 I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ search the heart, __I__ try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, __and__ according to the fruit of his doings. +11 __As__ the partridge sitteth __on__ __eggs__, and hatcheth __them__ not; __so__ he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. +12 ¶ A glorious high throne from the beginning __is__ the place of our sanctuary. +13 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, __and__ they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the fountain of living waters. +14 Heal me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou __art__ my praise. +15 ¶ Behold, they say unto me, Where __is__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? let it come now. +16 As for me, I have not hastened from __being__ a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was __right__ before thee. +17 Be not a terror unto me: thou __art__ my hope in the day of evil. +18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. +19 ¶ Thus said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; +20 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates: +21 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring __it__ in by the gates of Jerusalem; +22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers. +23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction. +24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; +25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever. +26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 THE word which came to Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. +3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. +4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make __it__. +5 Then the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to me, saying, +6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Behold, as the clay __is__ in the potter's hand, so __are__ ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. +7 __At__ __what__ instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy __it;__ +8 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. +9 And __at__ __what__ instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant __it;__ +10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. +11 ¶ Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. +12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. +13 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. +14 Will __a__ __man__ leave the snow of Lebanon __which__ __cometh__ from the rock of the field? __or__ shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? +15 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways __from__ the ancient paths, to walk in paths, __in__ a way not cast up; +16 To make their land desolate, __and__ a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. +17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity. +18 ¶ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. +19 Give heed to me, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. +20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, __and__ to turn away thy wrath from them. +21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their __blood__ by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and __be__ widows; and let their men be put to death; __let__ their young men __be__ slain by the sword in battle. +22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet. +23 Yet, $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay __me:__ forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal __thus__ with them in the time of thine anger. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 THUS saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and __take__ of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; +2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which __is__ by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, +3 And say, Hear ye the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. +4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; +5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire __for__ burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake __it__, neither came __it__ into my mind: +6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. +7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. +8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. +9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. +10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, +11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as __one__ breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury __them__ in Tophet, till __there__ __be__ no place to bury. +12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to the inhabitants thereof, and __even__ make this city as Tophet: +13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods. +14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house; and said to all the people, +15 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 NOW Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who __was__ also chief governor in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. +2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that __were__ in the high gate of Benjamin, which __was__ by the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib. +4 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold __it:__ and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. +5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. +6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies. +7 ¶ O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. +8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. +9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But __his__ __word__ was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not __stay__. +10 ¶ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, __say__ __they__, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, __saying__, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. +11 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: __their__ everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. +12 But, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, that triest the righteous, __and__ seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. +13 Sing unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, praise ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. +14 ¶ Cursed __be__ the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. +15 Cursed __be__ the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. +16 And let that man be as the cities which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; +17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb __to__ __be__ always great __with__ __me__. +18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 THE word which came unto Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, +2 Inquire, I pray thee, of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. +3 ¶ Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: +4 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that __are__ in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and __against__ the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city. +5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. +6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence. +7 And afterward, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy. +8 ¶ And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death. +9 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey. +10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. +11 ¶ And touching the house of the king of Judah, __say__, Hear ye the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; +12 O house of David, thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver __him__ __that__ __is__ spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench __it__, because of the evil of your doings. +13 Behold, I __am__ against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, __and__ rock of the plain, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? +14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 THUS saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, +2 And say, Hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: +3 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. +4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. +5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that this house shall become a desolation. +6 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto the king's house of Judah; Thou __art__ Gilead unto me, __and__ the head of Lebanon: __yet__ surely I will make thee a wilderness, __and__ cities __which__ are not inhabited. +7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast __them__ into the fire. +8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ done thus unto this great city? +9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. +10 ¶ Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: __but__ weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. +11 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more: +12 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more. +13 ¶ Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; __that__ useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work; +14 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and __it__ __is__ cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion. +15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest __thyself__ in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, __and__ then __it__ __was__ well with him? +16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then __it__ __was__ well __with__ __him:__ __was__ not this to know me? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 But thine eyes and thine heart __are__ not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do __it__. +18 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, __saying__, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, __saying__, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory! +19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. +20 ¶ Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed. +21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; __but__ thou saidst, I will not hear. This __hath__ __been__ thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice. +22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. +23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! +24 __As__ I live, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; +25 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand __of__ __them__ whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. +26 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die. +27 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return. +28 __Is__ this man Coniah a despised broken idol? __is__ __he__ a vessel wherein __is__ no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? +29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +30 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Write ye this man childless, a man __that__ shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 WOE be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. +4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. +6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this __is__ his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. +7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that they shall no more say, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; +8 But, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land. +9 ¶ Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and because of the words of his holiness. +10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force __is__ not right. +11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery __ways__ in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, __even__ the year of their visitation, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. +14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. +15 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land. +16 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, __and__ not out of the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 They say still unto them that despise me, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you. +18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard __it?__ +19 Behold, a whirlwind of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. +20 The anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. +21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. +22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. +23 __Am__ I a God at hand, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and not a God afar off? +24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. +26 How long shall __this__ be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, __they__ __are__ prophets of the deceit of their own heart; +27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. +28 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What __is__ the chaff to the wheat? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +29 __Is__ not my word like as a fire? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and like a hammer __that__ breaketh the rock in pieces? +30 Therefore, behold, I __am__ against the prophets, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. +31 Behold, I __am__ against the prophets, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. +32 Behold, I __am__ against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +33 ¶ And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What __is__ the burden of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +34 And __as__ __for__ the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I will even punish that man and his house. +35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered? and, What hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spoken? +36 And the burden of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts our God. +37 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered thee? and, What hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spoken? +38 But since ye say, The burden of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Because ye say this word, The burden of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; +39 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, __and__ __cast__ __you__ out of my presence: +40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 THE $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs __were__ set before the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. +2 One basket __had__ very good figs, __even__ like the figs __that__ __are__ first ripe: and the other basket __had__ very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. +3 Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. +4 ¶ Again the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +5 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for __their__ good. +6 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull __them__ down; and I will plant them, and not pluck __them__ up. +7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart. +8 ¶ And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: +9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for __their__ hurt, __to__ __be__ a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. +10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 THE word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that __was__ the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; +2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, +3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that __is__ the three and twentieth year, the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened. +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending __them;__ but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. +5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever: +6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. +7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. +8 ¶ Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, +9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. +10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. +11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, __and__ an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. +12 ¶ And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, __that__ I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. +13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, __even__ all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. +14 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. +15 ¶ For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. +16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. +17 Then took I the cup at the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had sent me: +18 __To__ __wit__, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as __it__ __is__ this day; +19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; +20 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod, +21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, +22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which __are__ beyond the sea, +23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all __that__ __are__ in the utmost corners, +24 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, +25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, +26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which __are__ upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. +27 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. +28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. +29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread __the__ __grapes__, against all the inhabitants of the earth. +31 A noise shall come __even__ to the ends of the earth; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them __that__ __are__ wicked to the sword, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +32 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. +33 And the slain of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be at that day from __one__ end of the earth even unto the __other__ end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground. +34 ¶ Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves __in__ __the__ __ashes__, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. +35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. +36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, __shall__ __be__ __heard:__ for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoiled their pasture. +37 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 IN the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Stand in the court of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word: +3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings. +4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, +5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending __them__, but ye have not hearkened; +6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. +7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 ¶ Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had commanded __him__ to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. +9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 ¶ When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s __house__. +11 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man __is__ worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears. +12 ¶ Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. +13 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. +14 As for me, behold, I __am__ in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you. +15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears. +16 ¶ Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man __is__ not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, +18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Zion shall be plowed __like__ a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest. +19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and besought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls. +20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah: +21 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt; +22 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, __namely__, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and __certain__ men with him into Egypt. +23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. +24 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 IN the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, +3 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; +4 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters; +5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that __are__ upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. +6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him. +7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. +8 And it shall come to pass, __that__ the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand. +9 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: +10 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish. +11 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and they shall till it, and dwell therein. +12 ¶ I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. +13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? +14 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you. +15 For I have not sent them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you. +16 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you. +17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste? +18 But if they __be__ prophets, and if the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be with them, let them now make intercession to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and __in__ the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon. +19 ¶ For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city, +20 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; +21 Yea, thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain __in__ the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and __in__ the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem; +22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 AND it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, __and__ in the fifth month, __that__ Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which __was__ of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, +2 Thus speaketh the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. +3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: +4 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. +5 ¶ Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do so: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place. +7 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people; +8 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. +9 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, __then__ shall the prophet be known, that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath truly sent him. +10 ¶ Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. +11 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. +12 ¶ Then the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Jeremiah __the__ __prophet__, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, +13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron. +14 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also. +15 ¶ Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. +16 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 NOW these __are__ the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; +2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;) +3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying, +4 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; +5 Build ye houses, and dwell __in__ __them;__ and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; +6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. +7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. +8 ¶ For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that __be__ in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. +9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 ¶ For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. +11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. +12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. +13 And ye shall seek me, and find __me__, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. +14 And I will be found of you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive. +15 ¶ Because ye have said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; +16 __Know__ that thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, __and__ of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; +17 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. +18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: +19 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending __them;__ but ye would not hear, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 ¶ Hear ye therefore the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: +21 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes; +22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which __are__ in Babylon, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire; +23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and __am__ a witness, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +24 ¶ __Thus__ shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying, +25 Thus speaketh the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that __are__ at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying, +26 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for every man __that__ __is__ mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks. +27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you? +28 For therefore he sent unto us __in__ Babylon, saying, This __captivity__ __is__ long: build ye houses, and dwell __in__ __them;__ and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them. +29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. +30 ¶ Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Jeremiah, saying, +31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie: +32 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; because he hath taught rebellion against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 THE word that came to Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +2 Thus speaketh the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. +3 For, lo, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. +4 ¶ And these __are__ the words that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. +5 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. +6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? +7 Alas! for that day __is__ great, so that none __is__ like it: it __is__ even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. +8 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, __that__ I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: +9 But they shall serve the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. +10 ¶ Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make __him__ afraid. +11 For I __am__ with thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. +12 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Thy bruise __is__ incurable, __and__ thy wound __is__ grievous. +13 __There__ __is__ none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. +14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; __because__ thy sins were increased. +15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow __is__ incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: __because__ thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. +16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. +17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; because they called thee an Outcast, __saying__, This __is__ Zion, whom no man seeketh after. +18 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. +19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. +20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. +21 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who __is__ this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. +23 Behold, the whirlwind of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. +24 The fierce anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall not return, until he have done __it__, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 AT the same time, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, The people __which__ __were__ left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; __even__ Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath appeared of old unto me, __saying__, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. +4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. +5 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat __them__ as common things. +6 For there shall be a day, __that__ the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +7 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. +8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, __and__ with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. +9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim __is__ my firstborn. +10 ¶ Hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O ye nations, and declare __it__ in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd __doth__ his flock. +11 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of __him__ __that__ __was__ stronger than he. +12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. +13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. +14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, __and__ bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they __were__ not. +16 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. +17 And there is hope in thine end, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that thy children shall come again to their own border. +18 ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself __thus;__ Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed __to__ __the__ __yoke:__ turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou __art__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God. +19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon __my__ thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. +20 __Is__ Ephraim my dear son? __is__ __he__ a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, __even__ the way __which__ thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities. +22 ¶ How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man. +23 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ bless thee, O habitation of justice, __and__ mountain of holiness. +24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they __that__ go forth with flocks. +25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul. +26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me. +27 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast. +28 And it shall come to pass, __that__ like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. +30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge. +31 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: +32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day __that__ I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +33 But this __shall__ __be__ the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. +34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. +35 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which giveth the sun for a light by day, __and__ the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ his name: +36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __then__ the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. +37 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +38 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that the city shall be built to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner. +39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. +40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, __shall__ __be__ holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +1 THE word that came to Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which __was__ the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. +2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which __was__ in the king of Judah's house. +3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; +4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; +5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper? +6 ¶ And Jeremiah said, The word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +7 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that __is__ in Anathoth: for the right of redemption __is__ thine to buy __it__. +8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that __is__ in Anathoth, which __is__ in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance __is__ thine, and the redemption __is__ thine; buy __it__ for thyself. Then I knew that this __was__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that __was__ in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, __even__ seventeen shekels of silver. +10 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed __it__, and took witnesses, and weighed __him__ the money in the balances. +11 So I took the evidence of the purchase, __both__ that which was sealed __according__ to the law and custom, and that which was open: +12 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's __son__, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. +13 ¶ And I charged Baruch before them, saying, +14 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days. +15 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. +16 ¶ Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +17 Ah Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, __and__ there is nothing too hard for thee: +18 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, __is__ his name, +19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes __are__ open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: +20 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, __even__ unto this day, and in Israel, and among __other__ men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day; +21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror; +22 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; +23 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them: +24 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest __it__. +25 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. +26 ¶ Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Jeremiah, saying, +27 Behold, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? +28 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: +29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger. +30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 For this city hath been to me __as__ a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face, +32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +33 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching __them__, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction. +34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it. +35 And they built the high places of Baal, which __are__ in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through __the__ __fire__ unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. +36 ¶ And now therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; +37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: +38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: +39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: +40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. +41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. +42 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. +43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, __It__ __is__ desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. +44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal __them__, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 MOREOVER the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the maker thereof, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that formed it, to establish it; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ his name; +3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. +4 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword; +5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but __it__ __is__ to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city. +6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. +7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. +8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. +9 ¶ And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. +10 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say __shall__ __be__ desolate without man and without beast, __even__ in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, +11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ good; for his mercy __endureth__ for ever: __and__ of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing __their__ flocks to lie down. +13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth __them__, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 Behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. +15 ¶ In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. +16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this __is__ __the__ __name__ wherewith she shall be called, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our righteousness. +17 ¶ For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; +18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. +19 ¶ And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Jeremiah, saying, +20 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; +21 __Then__ may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. +22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. +23 Moreover the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Jeremiah, saying, +24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. +25 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; If my covenant __be__ not with day and night, __and__ __if__ I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; +26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, __so__ that I will not take __any__ of his seed __to__ __be__ rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +1 THE word which came unto Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying, +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire: +3 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon. +4 Yet hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword: +5 __But__ thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn __odours__ for thee; and they will lament thee, __saying__, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, +7 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah. +8 ¶ __This__ __is__ the word that came unto Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which __were__ at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; +9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, __being__ an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, __to__ __wit__, of a Jew his brother. +10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let __them__ go. +11 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids. +12 ¶ Therefore the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +13 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying, +14 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear. +15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: +16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. +17 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. +18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof, +19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf; +20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. +21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you. +22 Behold, I will command, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant. +:::SET CHAPTER 35 +1 THE word which came unto Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, +2 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. +3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites; +4 And I brought them into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which __was__ by the chamber of the princes, which __was__ above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door: +5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. +6 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, __neither__ ye, nor your sons for ever: +7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have __any:__ but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye __be__ strangers. +8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters; +9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed: +10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us. +11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem. +12 ¶ Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Jeremiah, saying, +13 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me. +15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending __them__, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. +16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me: +17 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered. +18 ¶ And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: +19 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 36 +1 AND it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, __that__ this word came unto Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saying, +2 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. +3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. +4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. +5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I __am__ shut up; I cannot go into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the ears of the people in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities. +7 It may be they will present their supplication before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and will return every one from his evil way: for great __is__ the anger and the fury that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath pronounced against this people. +8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house. +9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, __that__ they proclaimed a fast before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. +10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house, in the ears of all the people. +11 ¶ When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, __even__ Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. +13 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. +14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them. +15 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read __it__ in their ears. +16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. +17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth? +18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote __them__ with ink in the book. +19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be. +20 ¶ And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king. +21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king. +22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and __there__ __was__ __a__ __fire__ on the hearth burning before him. +23 And it came to pass, __that__ when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast __it__ into the fire that __was__ on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that __was__ on the hearth. +24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, __neither__ the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words. +25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them. +26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hid them. +27 ¶ Then the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, +28 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned. +29 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? +30 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. +31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not. +32 ¶ Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words. +:::SET CHAPTER 37 +1 AND king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. +2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah. +3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God for us. +4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison. +5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem. +6 ¶ Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying, +7 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. +8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. +9 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. +10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained __but__ wounded men among them, __yet__ should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. +11 ¶ And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, +12 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people. +13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward __was__ there, whose name __was__ Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. +14 Then said Jeremiah, __It__ __is__ false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. +15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. +16 ¶ When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; +17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there __any__ word from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. +18 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison? +19 Where __are__ now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? +20 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. +21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. +:::SET CHAPTER 38 +1 THEN Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying, +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live. +3 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it. +4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. +5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he __is__ in your hand: for the king __is__ not __he__ __that__ can do __any__ thing against you. +6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that __was__ in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon __there__ __was__ no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. +7 ¶ Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; +8 Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, +9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for __there__ __is__ no more bread in the city. +10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. +11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. +12 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now __these__ old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. +13 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. +14 ¶ Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that __is__ in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. +15 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare __it__ unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me? +16 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, __As__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life. +17 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house: +18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand. +19 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me. +20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver __thee__. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live. +21 But if thou refuse to go forth, this __is__ the word that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath shewed me: +22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house __shall__ __be__ brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those __women__ shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, __and__ they are turned away back. +23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire. +24 ¶ Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die. +25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee: +26 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there. +27 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. +28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was __there__ when Jerusalem was taken. +:::SET CHAPTER 39 +1 IN the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. +2 __And__ in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth __day__ of the month, the city was broken up. +3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, __even__ Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon. +4 ¶ And it came to pass, __that__ when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain. +5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him. +6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. +7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon. +8 ¶ And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. +9 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained. +10 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. +11 ¶ Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying, +12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee. +13 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab-saris, and Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the king of Babylon's princes; +14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people. +15 ¶ Now the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying, +16 Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be __accomplished__ in that day before thee. +17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou __art__ afraid. +18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 40 +1 THE word that came to Jeremiah from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon. +2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place. +3 Now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath brought __it__, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you. +4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which __were__ upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land __is__ before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go. +5 Now while he was not yet gone back, __he__ __said__, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go. +6 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land. +7 ¶ Now when all the captains of the forces which __were__ in the fields, __even__ they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon; +8 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. +9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. +10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put __them__ in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken. +11 Likewise when all the Jews that __were__ in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that __were__ in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan; +12 Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much. +13 ¶ Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that __were__ in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, +14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not. +15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know __it:__ wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish? +16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael. +:::SET CHAPTER 41 +1 NOW it came to pass in the seventh month, __that__ Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah. +2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. +3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, __even__ with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, __and__ the men of war. +4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew __it__, +5 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, __even__ fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring __them__ to the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. +7 And it was __so__, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, __and__ __cast__ __them__ into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that __were__ with him. +8 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren. +9 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, __was__ it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: __and__ Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with __them__ __that__ __were__ slain. +10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that __were__ in Mizpah, __even__ the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites. +11 ¶ But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that __were__ with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, +12 Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that __are__ in Gibeon. +13 Now it came to pass, __that__ when all the people which __were__ with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that __were__ with him, then they were glad. +14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah. +15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites. +16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that __were__ with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after __that__ he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, __even__ mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon: +17 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt, +18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land. +:::SET CHAPTER 42 +1 THEN all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near, +2 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God, __even__ for all this remnant; (for we are left __but__ a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:) +3 That the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. +4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard __you;__ behold, I will pray unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, __that__ whatsoever thing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall answer you, I will declare __it__ unto you; I will keep nothing back from you. +5 Then they said to Jeremiah, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God shall send thee to us. +6 Whether __it__ __be__ good, or whether __it__ __be__ evil, we will obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +7 ¶ And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Jeremiah. +8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which __were__ with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, +9 And said unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him; +10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull __you__ down, and I will plant you, and not pluck __you__ up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. +11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for I __am__ with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand. +12 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land. +13 ¶ But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, +14 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell: +15 And now therefore hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there; +16 Then it shall come to pass, __that__ the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die. +17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them. +18 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more. +19 ¶ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day. +20 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, saying, Pray for us unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God; and according unto all that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do __it__. +21 And __now__ I have this day declared __it__ to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, nor any __thing__ for the which he hath sent me unto you. +22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go __and__ to sojourn. +:::SET CHAPTER 43 +1 AND it came to pass, __that__ when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, for which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God had sent him to them, __even__ all these words, +2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: +3 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon. +4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to dwell in the land of Judah. +5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah; +6 __Even__ men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah. +7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: thus came they __even__ to Tahpanhes. +8 ¶ Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, +9 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which __is__ at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; +10 And say unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. +11 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, __and__ __deliver__ such __as__ __are__ for death to death; and such __as__ __are__ for captivity to captivity; and such __as__ __are__ for the sword to the sword. +12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace. +13 He shall break also the images of Beth-shemesh, that __is__ in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire. +:::SET CHAPTER 44 +1 THE word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they __are__ a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein, +3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, __and__ to serve other gods, whom they knew not, __neither__ they, ye, nor your fathers. +4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending __them__, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. +5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. +6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted __and__ desolate, as at this day. +7 Therefore now thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye __this__ great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; +8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? +9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? +10 They are not humbled __even__ unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. +11 ¶ Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah. +12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, __and__ fall in the land of Egypt; they shall __even__ be consumed by the sword __and__ by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, __and__ an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach. +13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: +14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape. +15 ¶ Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, +16 __As__ __for__ the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, we will not hearken unto thee. +17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for __then__ had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. +18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all __things__, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. +19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? +20 ¶ Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him __that__ answer, saying, +21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ remember them, and came it __not__ into his mind? +22 So that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, __and__ because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. +23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have not obeyed the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day. +24 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all Judah that __are__ in the land of Egypt: +25 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows. +26 Therefore hear ye the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ liveth. +27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that __are__ in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them. +28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs. +29 ¶ And this __shall__ __be__ a sign unto you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil: +30 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life. +:::SET CHAPTER 45 +1 THE word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch; +3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest. +4 ¶ Thus shalt thou say unto him, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saith thus; Behold, __that__ which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land. +5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek __them__ not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest. +:::SET CHAPTER 46 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; +2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. +3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. +4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with __your__ helmets; furbish the spears, __and__ put on the brigandines. +5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed __and__ turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: __for__ fear __was__ round about, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. +7 Who __is__ this __that__ cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? +8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and __his__ waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, __and__ will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. +9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle __and__ bend the bow. +10 For this __is__ the day of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates. +11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; __for__ thou shalt not be cured. +12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, __and__ they are fallen both together. +13 ¶ The word that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come __and__ smite the land of Egypt. +14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. +15 Why are thy valiant __men__ swept away? they stood not, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ did drive them. +16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword. +17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt __is__ __but__ a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. +18 __As__ I live, saith the King, whose name __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, Surely as Tabor __is__ among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, __so__ shall he come. +19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. +20 Egypt __is__ __like__ a very fair heifer, __but__ destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. +21 Also her hired men __are__ in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, __and__ are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, __and__ the time of their visitation. +22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. +23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and __are__ innumerable. +24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. +25 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and __all__ them that trust in him: +26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 ¶ But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make __him__ afraid. +28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for I __am__ with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished. +:::SET CHAPTER 47 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl. +3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong __horses__, at the rushing of his chariots, __and__ __at__ the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to __their__ children for feebleness of hands; +4 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, __and__ to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor. +5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off __with__ the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? +6 O thou sword of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, how long __will__ __it__ __be__ ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. +7 How can it be quiet, seeing the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it. +:::SET CHAPTER 48 +1 AGAINST Moab thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded __and__ taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed. +2 __There__ __shall__ __be__ no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from __being__ a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee. +3 A voice of crying __shall__ __be__ from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. +4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. +5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. +6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. +7 ¶ For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity __with__ his priests and his princes together. +8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken. +9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. +10 Cursed __be__ he that doeth the work of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ deceitfully, and cursed __be__ he that keepeth back his sword from blood. +11 ¶ Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed. +12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. +13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence. +14 ¶ How say ye, We __are__ mighty and strong men for the war? +15 Moab is spoiled, and gone up __out__ __of__ her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +16 The calamity of Moab __is__ near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. +17 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, __and__ the beautiful rod! +18 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from __thy__ glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, __and__ he shall destroy thy strong holds. +19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, __and__ say, What is done? +20 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, +21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, +22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim, +23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon, +24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near. +25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +26 ¶ Make ye him drunken: for he magnified __himself__ against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. +27 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. +28 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove __that__ maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth. +29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart. +30 I know his wrath, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; but __it__ __shall__ not __be__ so; his lies shall not so effect __it__. +31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; __mine__ __heart__ shall mourn for the men of Kir-heres. +32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach __even__ to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage. +33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; __their__ shouting __shall__ __be__ no shouting. +34 From the cry of Heshbon __even__ unto Elealeh, __and__ __even__ unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar __even__ unto Horonaim, __as__ an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. +35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods. +36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches __that__ he hath gotten are perished. +37 For every head __shall__ __be__ bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands __shall__ __be__ cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. +38 __There__ __shall__ __be__ lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein __is__ no pleasure, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +39 They shall howl, __saying__, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him. +40 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab. +41 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. +42 And Moab shall be destroyed from __being__ a people, because he hath magnified __himself__ against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, __shall__ __be__ upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +44 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, __even__ upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones. +46 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives. +47 ¶ Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Thus far __is__ the judgment of Moab. +:::SET CHAPTER 49 +1 CONCERNING the Ammonites, thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why __then__ doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? +2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, __and__ his priests and his princes together. +4 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, __saying__, Who shall come unto me? +5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth. +6 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 ¶ Concerning Edom, thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; __Is__ wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? +8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time __that__ I will visit him. +9 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave __some__ gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. +10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he __is__ not. +11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve __them__ alive; and let thy widows trust in me. +12 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, they whose judgment __was__ not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and __art__ thou he __that__ shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink __of__ __it__. +13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes. +14 I have heard a rumour from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, __saying__, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. +15 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, __and__ despised among men. +16 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, __and__ the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. +18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour __cities__ thereof, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. +19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who __is__ a chosen __man__, __that__ I may appoint over her? for who __is__ like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who __is__ that shepherd that will stand before me? +20 Therefore hear the counsel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them. +21 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. +22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs. +23 ¶ Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; __there__ __is__ sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. +24 Damascus is waxed feeble, __and__ turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on __her:__ anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. +25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! +26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad. +28 ¶ Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. +29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear __is__ on every side. +30 ¶ Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you. +31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which have neither gates nor bars, __which__ dwell alone. +32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them __that__ __are__ in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, __and__ a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor __any__ son of man dwell in it. +34 ¶ The word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, +35 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. +36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. +37 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, __even__ my fierce anger, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them: +38 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +39 ¶ But it shall come to pass in the latter days, __that__ I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 50 +1 THE word that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake against Babylon __and__ against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. +2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, __and__ conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. +3 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast. +4 ¶ In those days, and in that time, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God. +5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, __saying__, Come, and let us join ourselves to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in a perpetual covenant __that__ shall not be forgotten. +6 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away __on__ the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. +7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the habitation of justice, even the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the hope of their fathers. +8 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks. +9 ¶ For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows __shall__ __be__ as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. +10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; +12 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations __shall__ __be__ a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. +13 Because of the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. +14 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it __is__ the vengeance of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her. +16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land. +17 ¶ Israel __is__ a scattered sheep; the lions have driven __him__ away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. +18 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. +19 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead. +20 In those days, and in that time, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and __there__ __shall__ __be__ none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve. +21 ¶ Go up against the land of Merathaim, __even__ against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. +22 A sound of battle __is__ in the land, and of great destruction. +23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! +24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +25 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this __is__ the work of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. +26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left. +27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation. +28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, the vengeance of his temple. +29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, against the Holy One of Israel. +30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 Behold, I __am__ against thee, __O__ __thou__ most proud, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts: for thy day is come, the time __that__ I will visit thee. +32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him. +33 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah __were__ oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. +34 Their Redeemer __is__ strong; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. +35 ¶ A sword __is__ upon the Chaldeans, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise __men__. +36 A sword __is__ upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword __is__ upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed. +37 A sword __is__ upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that __are__ in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword __is__ upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed. +38 A drought __is__ upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it __is__ the land of graven images, and they are mad upon __their__ idols. +39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell __there__, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. +40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour __cities__ thereof, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; __so__ shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. +41 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. +42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they __are__ cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, __every__ __one__ put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon. +43 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, __and__ pangs as of a woman in travail. +44 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who __is__ a chosen __man__, __that__ I may appoint over her? for who __is__ like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who __is__ that shepherd that will stand before me? +45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make __their__ habitation desolate with them. +46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations. +:::SET CHAPTER 51 +1 THUS saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; +2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. +3 Against __him__ __that__ bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against __him__ __that__ lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. +4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and __they__ __that__ __are__ thrust through in her streets. +5 For Israel __hath__ not __been__ forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. +6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this __is__ the time of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence. +7 Babylon __hath__ __been__ a golden cup in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. +8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. +9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up __even__ to the skies. +10 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God. +11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device __is__ against Babylon, to destroy it; because it __is__ the vengeance of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the vengeance of his temple. +12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. +13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, __and__ the measure of thy covetousness. +14 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath sworn by himself, __saying__, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. +15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. +16 When he uttereth __his__ voice, __there__ __is__ a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. +17 Every man is brutish by __his__ knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image __is__ falsehood, and __there__ __is__ no breath in them. +18 They __are__ vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. +19 The portion of Jacob __is__ not like them; for he __is__ the former of all things: and __Israel__ __is__ the rod of his inheritance: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts __is__ his name. +20 Thou __art__ my battle axe __and__ weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; +21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; +22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; +23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. +24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +25 Behold, I __am__ against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain. +26 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers. +28 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. +29 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. +30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in __their__ holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken. +31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at __one__ end, +32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. +33 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon __is__ like a threshingfloor, __it__ __is__ time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. +34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. +35 The violence done to me and to my flesh __be__ upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. +36 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry. +37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. +38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps. +39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats. +41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! +42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. +43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth __any__ son of man pass thereby. +44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. +45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +46 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come __one__ year, and after that in __another__ year __shall__ __come__ a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler. +47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. +48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that __is__ therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +49 As Babylon __hath__ __caused__ the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. +50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. +51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house. +52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan. +53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, __yet__ from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +54 A sound of a cry __cometh__ from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans: +55 Because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered: +56 Because the spoiler is come upon her, __even__ upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of recompences shall surely requite. +57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise __men__, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name __is__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +58 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary. +59 ¶ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And __this__ Seraiah __was__ a quiet prince. +60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, __even__ all these words that are written against Babylon. +61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; +62 Then shalt thou say, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever. +63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, __that__ thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates: +64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far __are__ the words of Jeremiah. +:::SET CHAPTER 52 +1 ZEDEKIAH __was__ one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name __was__ Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. +2 And he did __that__ __which__ __was__ evil in the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. +3 For through the anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. +4 ¶ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth __day__ of the month, __that__ Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about. +5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. +6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth __day__ of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. +7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which __was__ by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans __were__ by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain. +8 ¶ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. +9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. +10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. +11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. +12 ¶ Now in the fifth month, in the tenth __day__ of the month, which __was__ the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, __which__ served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, +13 And burned the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great __men__, burned he with fire: +14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that __were__ with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about. +15 Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive __certain__ of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. +16 But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left __certain__ of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. +17 Also the pillars of brass that __were__ in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the bases, and the brasen sea that __was__ in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. +18 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. +19 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; __that__ which __was__ of gold __in__ gold, and __that__ which __was__ of silver __in__ silver, took the captain of the guard away. +20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that __were__ under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: the brass of all these vessels was without weight. +21 And __concerning__ the pillars, the height of one pillar __was__ eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof __was__ four fingers: __it__ __was__ hollow. +22 And a chapiter of brass __was__ upon it; and the height of one chapiter __was__ five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all __of__ brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates __were__ like unto these. +23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; __and__ all the pomegranates upon the network __were__ an hundred round about. +24 ¶ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door: +25 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city. +26 So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. +27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land. +28 This __is__ the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty: +29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons: +30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons __were__ four thousand and six hundred. +31 ¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth __day__ of the month, __that__ Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the __first__ year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, +32 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that __were__ with him in Babylon, +33 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. +34 And __for__ his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life. +:::SET BOOK Lamentations +:::SET TITLE The Lamentations of Jeremiah +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 HOW doth the city sit solitary, __that__ __was__ full of people! __how__ is she become as a widow! she __that__ __was__ great among the nations, __and__ princess among the provinces, __how__ is she become tributary! +2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears __are__ on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort __her:__ all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. +3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. +4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she __is__ in bitterness. +5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. +6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts __that__ find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. +7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, __and__ did mock at her sabbaths. +8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. +9 Her filthiness __is__ in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified __himself__. +10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen __that__ the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command __that__ they should not enter into thy congregation. +11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and consider; for I am become vile. +12 ¶ __Is__ __it__ nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath afflicted __me__ in the day of his fierce anger. +13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate __and__ faint all the day. +14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, __and__ come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into __their__ hands, __from__ __whom__ I am not able to rise up. +15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty __men__ in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, __as__ in a winepress. +16 For these __things__ I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. +17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, __and__ __there__ __is__ none to comfort her: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath commanded concerning Jacob, __that__ his adversaries __should__ __be__ round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them. +18 ¶ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. +19 I called for my lovers, __but__ they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. +20 Behold, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for I __am__ in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home __there__ __is__ as death. +21 They have heard that I sigh: __there__ __is__ none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done __it:__ thou wilt bring the day __that__ thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me. +22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs __are__ many, and my heart __is__ faint. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 HOW hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, __and__ cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! +2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought __them__ down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. +3 He hath cut off in __his__ fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, __which__ devoureth round about. +4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all __that__ __were__ pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire. +5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. +6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as __if__ __it__ __were__ __of__ a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. +7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as in the day of a solemn feast. +8 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. +9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes __are__ among the Gentiles: the law __is__ no __more;__ her prophets also find no vision from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, __and__ keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. +11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. +12 They say to their mothers, Where __is__ corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. +13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach __is__ great like the sea: who can heal thee? +14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. +15 All that pass by clap __their__ hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, __saying__, __Is__ this the city that __men__ call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? +16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed __her__ up: certainly this __is__ the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen __it__. +17 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath done __that__ which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused __thine__ enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. +18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. +19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. +20 ¶ Behold, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, __and__ children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? +21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain __them__ in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, __and__ not pitied. +22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 I __AM__ the man __that__ hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. +2 He hath led me, and brought __me__ __into__ darkness, but not __into__ light. +3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand __against__ __me__ all the day. +4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. +5 He hath builded against me, and compassed __me__ with gall and travail. +6 He hath set me in dark places, as __they__ __that__ __be__ dead of old. +7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. +8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. +9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. +10 He __was__ unto me __as__ a bear lying in wait, __and__ __as__ a lion in secret places. +11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. +12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. +13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. +14 I was a derision to all my people; __and__ their song all the day. +15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. +16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. +17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. +18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. +20 My soul hath __them__ still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. +21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. +22 ¶ __It__ __is__ __of__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. +23 __They__ __are__ new every morning: great __is__ thy faithfulness. +24 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. +25 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ good unto them that wait for him, to the soul __that__ seeketh him. +26 __It__ __is__ good that __a__ __man__ should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 __It__ __is__ good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. +28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne __it__ upon him. +29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. +30 He giveth __his__ cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. +31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever: +32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. +33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. +34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, +35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, +36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. +37 ¶ Who __is__ he __that__ saith, and it cometh to pass, __when__ the Lord commandeth __it__ not? +38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? +39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? +40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +41 Let us lift up our heart with __our__ hands unto God in the heavens. +42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. +43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. +44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that __our__ prayer should not pass through. +45 Thou hast made us __as__ the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. +46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. +47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. +48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. +49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, +50 Till the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ look down, and behold from heaven. +51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. +52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. +53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. +54 Waters flowed over mine head; __then__ I said, I am cut off. +55 ¶ I called upon thy name, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, out of the low dungeon. +56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. +57 Thou drewest near in the day __that__ I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. +58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. +59 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. +60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance __and__ all their imaginations against me. +61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ all their imaginations against me; +62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. +63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I __am__ their musick. +64 ¶ Render unto them a recompence, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, according to the work of their hands. +65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. +66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 HOW is the gold become dim! __how__ is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. +2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! +3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people __is__ __become__ cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. +4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, __and__ no man breaketh __it__ unto them. +5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. +6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. +7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing __was__ of sapphire: +8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. +9 __They__ __that__ __be__ slain with the sword are better than __they__ __that__ __be__ slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for __want__ __of__ the fruits of the field. +10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. +11 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. +12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. +13 ¶ For the sins of her prophets, __and__ the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, +14 They have wandered __as__ blind __men__ in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. +15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; __it__ __is__ unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn __there__. +16 The anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. +17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation __that__ could not save __us__. +18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. +19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. +20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. +21 ¶ Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. +22 ¶ The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 REMEMBER, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. +2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. +3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers __are__ as widows. +4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. +5 Our necks __are__ under persecution: we labour, __and__ have no rest. +6 We have given the hand __to__ the Egyptians, __and__ __to__ the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. +7 Our fathers have sinned, __and__ __are__ not; and we have borne their iniquities. +8 Servants have ruled over us: __there__ __is__ none that doth deliver __us__ out of their hand. +9 We gat our bread with __the__ __peril__ __of__ our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. +10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. +11 They ravished the women in Zion, __and__ the maids in the cities of Judah. +12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. +13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. +14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. +15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. +16 The crown is fallen __from__ our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! +17 For this our heart is faint; for these __things__ our eyes are dim. +18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. +19 Thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, 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 $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. +22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. +:::SET BOOK Ezekiel +:::SET TITLE The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth __month__, in the fifth __day__ of the month, as I __was__ among the captives by the river of Chebar, __that__ the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. +2 In the fifth __day__ of the month, which __was__ the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, +3 The word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was there upon him. +4 ¶ And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness __was__ about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. +5 Also out of the midst thereof __came__ the likeness of four living creatures. And this __was__ their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. +6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. +7 And their feet __were__ straight feet; and the sole of their feet __was__ like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. +8 And __they__ __had__ the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. +9 Their wings __were__ joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. +10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. +11 Thus __were__ their faces: and their wings __were__ stretched upward; two __wings__ of every one __were__ joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. +12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; __and__ they turned not when they went. +13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance __was__ like burning coals of fire, __and__ like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. +14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. +15 ¶ Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. +16 The appearance of the wheels and their work __was__ like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work __was__ as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. +17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: __and__ they turned not when they went. +18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings __were__ full of eyes round about them four. +19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. +20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither __was__ __their__ spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature __was__ in the wheels. +21 When those went, __these__ went; and when those stood, __these__ stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature __was__ in the wheels. +22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature __was__ as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. +23 And under the firmament __were__ their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. +24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. +25 And there was a voice from the firmament that __was__ over their heads, when they stood, __and__ had let down their wings. +26 ¶ And above the firmament that __was__ over their heads __was__ the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne __was__ the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. +27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. +28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so __was__ the appearance of the brightness round about. This __was__ the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. And when I saw __it__, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. +2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. +3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, __even__ unto this very day. +4 For __they__ __are__ impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they __are__ a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. +6 ¶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns __be__ with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they __be__ a rebellious house. +7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they __are__ most rebellious. +8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. +9 ¶ And when I looked, behold, an hand __was__ sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book __was__ therein; +10 And he spread it before me; and it __was__ written within and without: and __there__ __was__ written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 MOREOVER he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. +2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll. +3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat __it;__ and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. +4 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. +5 For thou __art__ not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, __but__ to the house of Israel; +6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee. +7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel __are__ impudent and hardhearted. +8 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. +9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they __be__ a rebellious house. +10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. +11 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. +12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, __saying__, Blessed __be__ the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from his place. +13 __I__ __heard__ also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing. +14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was strong upon me. +15 ¶ Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. +16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. +18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked __man__ shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. +19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. +20 Again, When a righteous __man__ doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. +21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous __man__, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul. +22 ¶ And the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee. +23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face. +24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. +25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: +26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they __are__ a rebellious house. +27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they __are__ a rebellious house. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 THOU also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, __even__ Jerusalem: +2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set __battering__ rams against it round about. +3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it __for__ a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This __shall__ __be__ a sign to the house of Israel. +4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: __according__ to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. +5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. +6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. +7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm __shall__ __be__ uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. +8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. +9 ¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, __according__ to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. +10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat __shall__ __be__ by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. +11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. +12 And thou shalt eat it __as__ barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. +14 Then said I, Ah Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. +15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. +16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: +17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's rasor, and cause __it__ to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the __hair__. +2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, __and__ smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them. +3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. +4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; __for__ thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. +5 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; This __is__ Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries __that__ __are__ round about her. +6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that __are__ round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. +7 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that __are__ round about you, __and__ have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that __are__ round about you; +8 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I, even I, __am__ against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. +9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. +10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. +11 Wherefore, __as__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish __thee;__ neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity. +12 ¶ A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. +13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__ in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them. +14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that __are__ round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by. +15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that __are__ round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__. +16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for __their__ destruction, __and__ which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: +17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, +3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, __even__ I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. +4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain __men__ before your idols. +5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. +6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. +7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 ¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have __some__ that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. +9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. +10 And they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ __that__ I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. +11 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. +12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. +13 Then shall ye know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when their slain __men__ shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. +14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 MOREOVER the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. +3 Now __is__ the end __come__ upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. +4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. +6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. +7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble __is__ near, and not the sounding again of the mountains. +8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. +9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations __that__ are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that smiteth. +10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. +11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them __shall__ __remain__, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither __shall__ __there__ __be__ wailing for them. +12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath __is__ upon all the multitude thereof. +13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision __is__ touching the whole multitude thereof, __which__ shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. +14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath __is__ upon all the multitude thereof. +15 The sword __is__ without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that __is__ in the field shall die with the sword; and he that __is__ in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. +16 ¶ But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. +17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak __as__ water. +18 They shall also gird __themselves__ with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame __shall__ __be__ upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. +19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. +20 ¶ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations __and__ of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. +21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. +22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret __place:__ for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. +23 ¶ Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. +24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. +25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and __there__ __shall__ __be__ none. +26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. +27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth __month__, in the fifth __day__ of the month, __as__ I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ fell there upon me. +2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. +3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where __was__ the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. +4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel __was__ there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. +5 ¶ Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. +6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? __even__ the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, __and__ thou shalt see greater abominations. +7 ¶ And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. +8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. +9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. +10 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. +11 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. +12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ seeth us not; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath forsaken the earth. +13 ¶ He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, __and__ thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. +14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house which __was__ toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. +15 ¶ Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen __this__, O son of man? turn thee yet again, __and__ thou shalt see greater abominations than these. +16 And he brought me into the inner court of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, between the porch and the altar, __were__ about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. +17 ¶ Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen __this__, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. +18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, __yet__ will I not hear them. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 HE cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man __with__ his destroying weapon in his hand. +2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them __was__ clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar. +3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which __had__ the writer's inkhorn by his side; +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. +5 ¶ And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: +6 Slay utterly old __and__ young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom __is__ the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which __were__ before the house. +7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. +8 ¶ And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? +9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah __is__ exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath forsaken the earth, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ seeth not. +10 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, __but__ I will recompense their way upon their head. +11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which __had__ the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 THEN I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. +2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, __even__ under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter __them__ over the city. And he went in in my sight. +3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. +4 Then the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went up from the cherub, __and__ __stood__ over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s glory. +5 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard __even__ to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. +6 And it came to pass, __that__ when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels. +7 And __one__ cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that __was__ between the cherubims, and took __thereof__, and put __it__ into the hands of __him__ __that__ __was__ clothed with linen: who took __it__, and went out. +8 ¶ And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings. +9 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels __was__ as the colour of a beryl stone. +10 And __as__ __for__ their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. +11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went. +12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, __were__ full of eyes round about, __even__ the wheels that they four had. +13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel. +14 And every one had four faces: the first face __was__ the face of a cherub, and the second face __was__ the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. +15 And the cherubims were lifted up. This __is__ the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. +16 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. +17 When they stood, __these__ stood; and when they were lifted up, __these__ lifted up themselves __also:__ for the spirit of the living creature __was__ in them. +18 Then the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims. +19 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also __were__ beside them, and __every__ __one__ stood at the door of the east gate of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house; and the glory of the God of Israel __was__ over them above. +20 This __is__ the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they __were__ the cherubims. +21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man __was__ under their wings. +22 And the likeness of their faces __was__ the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 MOREOVER the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. +2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these __are__ the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: +3 Which say, __It__ __is__ not near; let us build houses: this __city__ __is__ the caldron, and we __be__ the flesh. +4 ¶ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. +5 And the Spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, __every__ __one__ __of__ them. +6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. +7 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they __are__ the flesh, and this __city__ __is__ the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. +8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. +10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 This __city__ shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; __but__ I will judge you in the border of Israel: +12 And ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that __are__ round about you. +13 ¶ And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? +14 Again the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +15 Son of man, thy brethren, __even__ thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, __are__ they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: unto us is this land given in possession. +16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. +17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. +18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. +19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: +20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. +21 But __as__ __for__ __them__ whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +22 ¶ Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel __was__ over them above. +23 And the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which __is__ on the east side of the city. +24 ¶ Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. +25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had shewed me. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ also came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they __are__ a rebellious house. +3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they __be__ a rebellious house. +4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity. +5 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby. +6 In their sight shalt thou bear __it__ upon __thy__ shoulders, __and__ carry __it__ forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee __for__ a sign unto the house of Israel. +7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought __it__ forth in the twilight, __and__ I bare __it__ upon __my__ shoulder in their sight. +8 ¶ And in the morning came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me, saying, +9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou? +10 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; This burden __concerneth__ the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that __are__ among them. +11 Say, I __am__ your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove __and__ go into captivity. +12 And the prince that __is__ among them shall bear upon __his__ shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with __his__ eyes. +13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon __to__ the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. +14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that __are__ about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them. +15 And they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. +16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 ¶ Moreover the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to me, saying, +18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; +19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, __and__ of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. +20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 ¶ And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +22 Son of man, what __is__ that proverb __that__ ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? +23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. +24 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. +25 For I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +26 ¶ Again the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to me, saying, +27 Son of man, behold, __they__ __of__ the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth __is__ for many days __to__ __come__, and he prophesieth of the times __that__ __are__ far off. +28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; +3 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! +4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. +5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saith: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not sent them: and they have made __others__ to hope that they would confirm the word. +7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saith __it;__ albeit I have not spoken? +8 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I __am__ against you, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I __am__ the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +10 ¶ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and __there__ __was__ no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered __morter:__ +11 Say unto them which daub __it__ with untempered __morter__, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend __it__. +12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where __is__ the daubing wherewith ye have daubed __it?__ +13 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will even rend __it__ with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in __my__ fury to consume __it__. +14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered __morter__, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered __morter__, and will say unto you, The wall __is__ no __more__, neither they that daubed it; +16 __To__ __wit__, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and __there__ __is__ no peace, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +17 ¶ Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them, +18 And say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Woe to the __women__ that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive __that__ __come__ unto you? +19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear __your__ lies? +20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I __am__ against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make __them__ fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, __even__ the souls that ye hunt to make __them__ fly. +21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: +23 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 THEN came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. +2 And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? +4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; +5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. +6 ¶ Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Repent, and turn __yourselves__ from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. +7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will answer him by myself: +8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. +10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh __unto__ __him;__ +11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +12 ¶ The word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came again to me, saying, +13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: +14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver __but__ their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +15 ¶ If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: +16 __Though__ these three men __were__ in it, __as__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate. +17 ¶ Or __if__ I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: +18 Though these three men __were__ in it, __as__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. +19 ¶ Or __if__ I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: +20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, __were__ in it, __as__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall __but__ deliver their own souls by their righteousness. +21 For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? +22 ¶ Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, __both__ sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, __even__ concerning all that I have brought upon it. +23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AND the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, __or__ __than__ a branch which is among the trees of the forest? +3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will __men__ take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon? +4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for __any__ work? +5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for __any__ work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? +6 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. +7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from __one__ fire, and __another__ fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I set my face against them. +8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 AGAIN the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, +3 And say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity __is__ of the land of Canaan; thy father __was__ an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. +4 And __as__ __for__ thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple __thee;__ thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. +5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. +6 ¶ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee __when__ __thou__ __wast__ in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee __when__ __thou__ __wast__ in thy blood, Live. +7 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: __thy__ breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou __wast__ naked and bare. +8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time __was__ the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, and thou becamest mine. +9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. +10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. +11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. +12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. +13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment __was__ __of__ fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. +14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it __was__ perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +15 ¶ But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. +16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: __the__ __like__ __things__ shall not come, neither shall it be __so__. +17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, +18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. +19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, __wherewith__ I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and __thus__ it was, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. __Is__ __this__ of thy whoredoms a small matter, +21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through __the__ __fire__ for them? +22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, __and__ wast polluted in thy blood. +23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$;) +24 __That__ thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. +25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. +26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. +27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary __food__, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. +28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. +29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. +30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, seeing thou doest all these __things__, the work of an imperious whorish woman; +31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire; +32 __But__ __as__ a wife that committeth adultery, __which__ taketh strangers instead of her husband! +33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. +34 And the contrary is in thee from __other__ women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary. +35 ¶ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +36 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; +37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all __them__ that thou hast loved, with all __them__ that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. +38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. +39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. +40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. +41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. +42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. +43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these __things;__ behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon __thine__ head, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations. +44 ¶ Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use __this__ proverb against thee, saying, As __is__ the mother, __so__ __is__ her daughter. +45 Thou __art__ thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou __art__ the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother __was__ an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. +46 And thine elder sister __is__ Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, __is__ Sodom and her daughters. +47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as __if__ __that__ __were__ a very little __thing__, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. +48 __As__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. +49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. +50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw __good__. +51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. +52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. +53 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then __will__ __I__ __bring__ __again__ the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: +54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. +55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. +56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, +57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of __thy__ reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all __that__ __are__ round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. +58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +59 For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. +60 ¶ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. +61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. +62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; +3 And say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: +4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. +5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed __it__ by great waters, __and__ set it __as__ a willow tree. +6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. +7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. +8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine. +9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof. +10 Yea, behold, __being__ planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew. +11 ¶ Moreover the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these __things__ __mean?__ tell __them__, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon; +13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land: +14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, __but__ that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. +15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such __things?__ or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? +16 __As__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, surely in the place __where__ the king __dwelleth__ that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, __even__ with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. +17 Neither shall Pharaoh with __his__ mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons: +18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these __things__, he shall not escape. +19 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; __As__ I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head. +20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me. +21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__. +22 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set __it;__ I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant __it__ upon an high mountain and eminent: +23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. +24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken and have done __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me again, saying, +2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? +3 __As__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, ye shall not have __occasion__ any more to use this proverb in Israel. +4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. +5 ¶ But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, +6 __And__ hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, +7 And hath not oppressed any, __but__ hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment; +8 He __that__ hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, __that__ hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man, +9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he __is__ just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +10 ¶ If he beget a son __that__ __is__ a robber, a shedder of blood, and __that__ doeth the like to __any__ one of these __things__, +11 And that doeth not any of those __duties__, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife, +12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination, +13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. +14 ¶ Now, lo, __if__ he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, +15 __That__ hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, +16 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, __but__ hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, +17 __That__ hath taken off his hand from the poor, __that__ hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. +18 __As__ __for__ his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did __that__ which __is__ not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity. +19 ¶ Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, __and__ hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. +20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. +21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. +22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. +23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: __and__ not that he should return from his ways, and live? +24 ¶ But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, __and__ doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked __man__ doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. +25 ¶ Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? +26 When a righteous __man__ turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. +27 Again, when the wicked __man__ turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. +28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. +29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? +30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. Repent, and turn __yourselves__ from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. +31 ¶ Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? +32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: wherefore turn __yourselves__, and live ye. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 MOREOVER take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, +2 And say, What __is__ thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. +3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. +4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. +5 Now when she saw that she had waited, __and__ her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, __and__ made him a young lion. +6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, __and__ devoured men. +7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. +8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. +9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel. +10 ¶ Thy mother __is__ like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. +11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. +12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. +13 And now she __is__ planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. +14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, __which__ hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod __to__ __be__ a sceptre to rule. This __is__ a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth __month__, the tenth __day__ of the month, __that__ certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and sat before me. +2 Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me, saying, +3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Are ye come to inquire of me? __As__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, I will not be inquired of by you. +4 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge __them?__ cause them to know the abominations of their fathers: +5 ¶ And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God; +6 In the day __that__ I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which __is__ the glory of all lands: +7 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. +9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they __were__, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt. +10 ¶ Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. +11 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which __if__ a man do, he shall even live in them. +12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that sanctify them. +13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which __if__ a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. +14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out. +15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given __them__, flowing with milk and honey, which __is__ the glory of all lands; +16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols. +17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. +18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: +19 I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; +20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which __if__ a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. +22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. +23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; +24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. +25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes __that__ __were__ not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; +26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through __the__ __fire__ all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +27 ¶ Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. +28 __For__ when I had brought them into the land, __for__ the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings. +29 Then I said unto them, What __is__ the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. +30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? +31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? __As__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, I will not be inquired of by you. +32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. +33 ¶ __As__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: +34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. +35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. +36 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: +38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter __also__, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols. +40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. +41 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. +42 And ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country __for__ the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. +43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. +44 And ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +45 ¶ Moreover the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +46 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop __thy__ __word__ toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; +47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein. +48 And all flesh shall see that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. +49 Then said I, Ah Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop __thy__ __word__ toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, +3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, I __am__ against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. +4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: +5 That all flesh may know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. +6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of __thy__ loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. +7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak __as__ water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +8 ¶ Again the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: +10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, __as__ every tree. +11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. +12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it __shall__ __be__ upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon __thy__ thigh. +13 Because __it__ __is__ a trial, and what if __the__ __sword__ contemn even the rod? it shall be no __more__, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite __thine__ hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it __is__ the sword of the great __men__ __that__ __are__ slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. +15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that __their__ heart may faint, and __their__ ruins be multiplied: ah! __it__ __is__ made bright, __it__ __is__ wrapped up for the slaughter. +16 Go thee one way or other, __either__ on the right hand, __or__ on the left, whithersoever thy face __is__ set. +17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have said __it__. +18 ¶ The word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me again, saying, +19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose __it__ at the head of the way to the city. +20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. +21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made __his__ arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. +22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint __battering__ rams against the gates, to cast a mount, __and__ to build a fort. +23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. +24 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, __I__ __say__, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand. +25 ¶ And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity __shall__ __have__ an end, +26 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this __shall__ not __be__ the same: exalt __him__ __that__ __is__ low, and abase __him__ __that__ __is__ high. +27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no __more__, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it __him__. +28 ¶ And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword __is__ drawn: for the slaughter __it__ __is__ furbished, to consume because of the glittering: +29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of __them__ __that__ __are__ slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity __shall__ __have__ an end. +30 Shall I cause __it__ to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. +31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, __and__ skilful to destroy. +32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no __more__ remembered: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 MOREOVER the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. +3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. +4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come __even__ unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. +5 __Those__ __that__ __be__ near, and __those__ __that__ __be__ far from thee, shall mock thee, __which__ __art__ infamous __and__ much vexed. +6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. +7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. +8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. +9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness. +10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. +11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. +12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +13 ¶ Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee. +14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__, and will do __it__. +15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. +16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +17 And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they __are__ brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are __even__ the dross of silver. +19 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. +20 __As__ they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt __it;__ so will I gather __you__ in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave __you__ __there__, and melt you. +21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. +22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have poured out my fury upon you. +23 ¶ And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou __art__ the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. +25 __There__ __is__ a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. +26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed __difference__ between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. +27 Her princes in the midst thereof __are__ like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, __and__ to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. +28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered __morter__, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, when the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not spoken. +29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. +30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. +31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came again unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: +3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. +4 And the names of them __were__ Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus __were__ their names; Samaria __is__ Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. +5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians __her__ neighbours, +6 __Which__ __were__ clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. +7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them __that__ __were__ the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. +8 Neither left she her whoredoms __brought__ from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. +9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. +10 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. +11 And when her sister Aholibah saw __this__, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in __her__ whoredoms. +12 She doted upon the Assyrians __her__ neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. +13 Then I saw that she was defiled, __that__ they __took__ both one way, +14 And __that__ she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, +15 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: +16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. +17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. +18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. +19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. +20 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh __is__ __as__ the flesh of asses, and whose issue __is__ __like__ the issue of horses. +21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. +22 ¶ Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; +23 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, __and__ all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses. +24 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, __which__ shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments. +25 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. +26 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. +27 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom __brought__ from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. +28 For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand __of__ __them__ whom thou hatest, into the hand __of__ __them__ from whom thy mind is alienated: +29 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. +30 I will do these __things__ unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, __and__ because thou art polluted with their idols. +31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand. +32 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. +33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. +34 Thou shalt even drink it and suck __it__ out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken __it__, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +35 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. +36 ¶ The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; +37 That they have committed adultery, and blood __is__ in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through __the__ __fire__, to devour __them__. +38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. +39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house. +40 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger __was__ sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments, +41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. +42 And a voice of a multitude being at ease __was__ with her: and with the men of the common sort __were__ brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. +43 Then said I unto __her__ __that__ __was__ old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she __with__ __them?__ +44 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women. +45 ¶ And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they __are__ adulteresses, and blood __is__ in their hands. +46 For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. +47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. +48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. +49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I __am__ the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AGAIN in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth __day__ of the month, the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, __even__ of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. +3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Set on a pot, set __it__ on, and also pour water into it: +4 Gather the pieces thereof into it, __even__ every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill __it__ with the choice bones. +5 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, __and__ make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein. +6 ¶ Wherefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum __is__ therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. +7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; +8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered. +9 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great. +10 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned. +11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and __that__ the filthiness of it may be molten in it, __that__ the scum of it may be consumed. +12 She hath wearied __herself__ with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum __shall__ __be__ in the fire. +13 In thy filthiness __is__ lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. +14 I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it:__ it shall come to pass, and I will do __it;__ I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +15 ¶ Also the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. +17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not __thy__ lips, and eat not the bread of men. +18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded. +19 ¶ And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these __things__ __are__ to us, that thou doest __so?__ +20 Then I answered them, The word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. +22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover __your__ lips, nor eat the bread of men. +23 And your tires __shall__ __be__ upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. +24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I __am__ the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +25 Also, thou son of man, __shall__ __it__ not __be__ in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters, +26 __That__ he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause __thee__ to hear __it__ with __thine__ ears? +27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came again unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them; +3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; +4 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. +5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because thou hast clapped __thine__ hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; +7 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah __is__ like unto all the heathen; +9 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities __which__ __are__ on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, +10 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. +11 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; +13 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. +14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +15 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy __it__ for the old hatred; +16 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. +17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first __day__ of the month, __that__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken __that__ __was__ the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, __now__ she is laid waste: +3 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I __am__ against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. +4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. +5 It shall be __a__ __place__ __for__ the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken __it__, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. +6 And her daughters which __are__ in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 ¶ For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. +8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee. +9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. +10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. +11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. +12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water. +13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. +14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be __a__ __place__ to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +15 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? +16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at __every__ moment, and be astonished at thee. +17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, __that__ __wast__ inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror __to__ __be__ on all that haunt it! +18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that __are__ in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. +19 For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; +20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; +21 I will make thee a terror, and thou __shalt__ __be__ no __more:__ though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came again unto me, saying, +2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; +3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, __which__ __art__ a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I __am__ of perfect beauty. +4 Thy borders __are__ in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. +5 They have made all thy __ship__ boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. +6 __Of__ the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches __of__ ivory, __brought__ out of the isles of Chittim. +7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. +8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise __men__, O Tyrus, __that__ were in thee, were thy pilots. +9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise __men__ thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise. +10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness. +11 The men of Arvad with thine army __were__ upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect. +12 Tarshish __was__ thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all __kind__ __of__ riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs. +13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they __were__ thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market. +14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. +15 The men of Dedan __were__ thy merchants; many isles __were__ the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee __for__ a present horns of ivory and ebony. +16 Syria __was__ thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. +17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they __were__ thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm. +18 Damascus __was__ thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool. +19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market. +20 Dedan __was__ thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots. +21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these __were__ __they__ thy merchants. +22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they __were__ thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. +23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, __and__ Chilmad, __were__ thy merchants. +24 These __were__ thy merchants in all sorts __of__ __things__, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. +25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. +26 ¶ Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. +27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that __are__ in thee, and in all thy company which __is__ in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. +28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. +29 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, __and__ all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; +30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: +31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart __and__ bitter wailing. +32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, __saying__, What __city__ __is__ like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? +33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise. +34 In the time __when__ thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. +35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in __their__ countenance. +36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never __shalt__ __be__ any more. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came again unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because thine heart __is__ lifted up, and thou hast said, I __am__ a God, I sit __in__ the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou __art__ a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: +3 Behold, thou __art__ wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: +4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: +5 By thy great wisdom __and__ by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: +6 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; +7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. +8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of __them__ __that__ __are__ slain in the midst of the seas. +9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I __am__ God? but thou __shalt__ __be__ a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. +10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken __it__, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +11 ¶ Moreover the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. +13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone __was__ thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. +14 Thou __art__ the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee __so:__ thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. +15 Thou __wast__ perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. +16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. +17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. +18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. +19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never __shalt__ thou __be__ any more. +20 ¶ Again the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, +22 And say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I __am__ against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. +23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +24 ¶ And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor __any__ grieving thorn of all __that__ __are__ round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I __am__ the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +25 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. +26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God. +:::SET CHAPTER 29 +1 IN the tenth year, in the tenth __month__, in the twelfth __day__ of the month, the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: +3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I __am__ against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river __is__ mine own, and I have made __it__ for myself. +4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. +5 And I will leave thee __thrown__ into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. +6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. +7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. +8 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. +9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: because he hath said, The river __is__ mine, and I have made __it__. +10 Behold, therefore I __am__ against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste __and__ desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. +11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. +12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries __that__ __are__ desolate, and her cities among the cities __that__ __are__ laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. +13 ¶ Yet thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered: +14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return __into__ the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. +15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. +16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth __their__ iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I __am__ the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +17 ¶ And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first __month__, in the first __day__ of the month, the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head __was__ made bald, and every shoulder __was__ peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it: +19 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. +20 I have given him the land of Egypt __for__ his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +21 ¶ In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 30 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came again unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! +3 For the day __is__ near, even the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. +4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. +5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. +6 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries __that__ __are__ desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities __that__ __are__ wasted. +8 And they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and __when__ all her helpers shall be destroyed. +9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh. +10 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. +11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. +12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__. +13 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause __their__ images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. +14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. +15 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No. +16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph __shall__ __have__ distresses daily. +17 The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these __cities__ shall go into captivity. +18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity. +19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +20 ¶ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first __month__, in the seventh __day__ of the month, __that__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. +22 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I __am__ against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. +23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. +24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded __man__. +25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. +26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 31 +1 AND it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third __month__, in the first __day__ of the month, __that__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? +3 ¶ Behold, the Assyrian __was__ a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. +4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. +5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. +6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. +7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. +8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. +9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that __were__ in the garden of God, envied him. +10 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; +11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. +12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. +13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: +14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. +15 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. +16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. +17 They also went down into hell with him unto __them__ __that__ __be__ slain with the sword; and __they__ __that__ __were__ his arm, __that__ dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. +18 ¶ To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with __them__ __that__ __be__ slain by the sword. This __is__ Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 32 +1 AND it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first __day__ of the month, __that__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou __art__ as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. +3 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. +4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. +5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. +6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, __even__ to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. +7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. +8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. +10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at __every__ moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall. +11 ¶ For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee. +12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. +13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. +14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +16 This __is__ the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, __even__ for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +17 ¶ It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth __day__ of the month, __that__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, __even__ her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. +19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. +20 They shall fall in the midst of __them__ __that__ __are__ slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. +21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. +22 Asshur __is__ there and all her company: his graves __are__ about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: +23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. +24 There __is__ Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. +25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves __are__ round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of __them__ __that__ __be__ slain. +26 There __is__ Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves __are__ round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. +27 And they shall not lie with the mighty __that__ __are__ fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though __they__ __were__ the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. +28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with __them__ __that__ __are__ slain with the sword. +29 There __is__ Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by __them__ __that__ __were__ slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. +30 There __be__ the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with __them__ __that__ __be__ slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. +31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, __even__ Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with __them__ __that__ __are__ slain with the sword, __even__ Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 33 +1 AGAIN the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: +3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; +4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. +5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. +6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take __any__ person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. +7 ¶ So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. +8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked __man__, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked __man__ shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. +9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. +10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins __be__ upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? +11 Say unto them, __As__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? +12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his __righteousness__ in the day that he sinneth. +13 When I shall say to the righteous, __that__ he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it. +14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; +15 __If__ the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. +16 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. +17 ¶ Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal. +18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. +19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby. +20 ¶ Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. +21 ¶ And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth __month__, in the fifth __day__ of the month, __that__ one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten. +22 Now the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. +23 Then the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we __are__ many; the land is given us for inheritance. +25 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? +26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? +27 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; __As__ I live, surely they that __are__ in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that __is__ in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that __be__ in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence. +28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. +29 Then shall they know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. +30 ¶ Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee __as__ my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, __but__ their heart goeth after their covetousness. +32 And, lo, thou __art__ unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. +33 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them. +:::SET CHAPTER 34 +1 AND the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ unto the shepherds; Woe __be__ to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? +3 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: __but__ ye feed not the flock. +4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up __that__ __which__ __was__ broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. +5 And they were scattered, because __there__ __is__ no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. +6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek __after__ __them__. +7 ¶ Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; +8 __As__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because __there__ __was__ no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock; +9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; +10 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I __am__ against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. +11 ¶ For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I, __even__ I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. +12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep __that__ __are__ scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. +13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. +14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and __in__ a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. +15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up __that__ __which__ __was__ broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. +17 And __as__ __for__ you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats. +18 __Seemeth__ __it__ a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? +19 And __as__ __for__ my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. +20 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ unto them; Behold, I, __even__ I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. +21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; +22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. +23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, __even__ my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. +24 And I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__. +25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. +26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. +27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. +28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make __them__ afraid. +29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. +30 Thus shall they know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God __am__ with them, and __that__ they, __even__ the house of Israel, __are__ my people, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, __are__ men, __and__ I __am__ your God, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 35 +1 MOREOVER the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, +3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, O mount Seir, I __am__ against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. +4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed __the__ __blood__ __of__ the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time __that__ __their__ iniquity __had__ an end: +6 Therefore, __as__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. +7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. +8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain __men:__ in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. +9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was there: +11 Therefore, __as__ I live, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee. +12 And thou shalt know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ __that__ I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. +13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard __them__. +14 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. +15 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, __even__ all of it: and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 36 +1 ALSO, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +2 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: +3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because they have made __you__ desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and __are__ an infamy of the people: +4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that __are__ round about; +5 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all __their__ heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey. +6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen: +7 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that __are__ about you, they shall bear their shame. +8 ¶ But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. +9 For, behold, I __am__ for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown: +10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, __even__ all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded: +11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better __unto__ __you__ than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, __even__ my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them __of__ __men__. +13 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Because they say unto you, Thou __land__ devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations; +14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +15 Neither will I cause __men__ to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +16 ¶ Moreover the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. +18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols __wherewith__ they had polluted it: +19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. +20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These __are__ the people of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and are gone forth out of his land. +21 ¶ But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. +22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I do not __this__ for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. +23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. +24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. +25 ¶ Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. +26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. +27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do __them__. +28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. +29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. +30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. +31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that __were__ not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. +32 Not for your sakes do I __this__, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel. +33 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause __you__ to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. +34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. +35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities __are__ __become__ fenced, __and__ are inhabited. +36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ build the ruined __places__, __and__ plant that that was desolate: I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__, and I will do __it__. +37 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; I will yet __for__ this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do __it__ for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. +38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 37 +1 THE hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and set me down in the midst of the valley which __was__ full of bones, +2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, __there__ __were__ very many in the open valley; and, lo, __they__ __were__ very dry. +3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, thou knowest. +4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: +6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. +8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but __there__ __was__ no breath in them. +9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. +10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. +11 ¶ Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. +12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. +13 And ye shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, +14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ have spoken __it__, and performed __it__, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 ¶ The word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came again unto me, saying, +16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and __for__ all the house of Israel his companions: +17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. +18 ¶ And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou __meanest__ by these? +19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which __is__ in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, __even__ with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. +20 ¶ And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. +21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: +22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: +23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. +24 And David my servant __shall__ __be__ king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. +25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, __even__ they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David __shall__ __be__ their prince for ever. +26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. +27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. +28 And the heathen shall know that I the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. +:::SET CHAPTER 38 +1 AND the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, +3 And say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I __am__ against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: +4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts __of__ __armour__, __even__ a great company __with__ bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: +5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: +6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: __and__ many people with thee. +7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. +8 ¶ After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land __that__ __is__ brought back from the sword, __and__ __is__ gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. +9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. +10 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; It shall also come to pass, __that__ at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: +11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, +12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places __that__ __are__ __now__ inhabited, and upon the people __that__ __are__ gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. +13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? +14 ¶ Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know __it?__ +15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: +16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. +17 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; __Art__ thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days __many__ years that I would bring thee against them? +18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, __that__ my fury shall come up in my face. +19 For in my jealousy __and__ in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; +20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that __are__ upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. +21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: every man's sword shall be against his brother. +22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that __are__ with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. +23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 39 +1 THEREFORE, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Behold, I __am__ against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: +2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: +3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. +4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that __is__ with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and __to__ the beasts of the field to be devoured. +5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken __it__, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not __let__ __them__ pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the Holy One in Israel. +8 ¶ Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; this __is__ the day whereof I have spoken. +9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: +10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down __any__ out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +11 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the __noses__ of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call __it__ The valley of Hamon-gog. +12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. +13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury __them;__ and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. +15 And the passengers __that__ pass through the land, when __any__ seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog. +16 And also the name of the city __shall__ __be__ Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land. +17 ¶ And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, __even__ a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. +18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. +19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. +20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. +22 So the house of Israel shall know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God from that day and forward. +23 ¶ And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword. +24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. +25 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; +26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made __them__ afraid. +27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; +28 Then shall they know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. +29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 40 +1 IN the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth __day__ of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ was upon me, and brought me thither. +2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which __was__ as the frame of a city on the south. +3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, __there__ __was__ a man, whose appearance __was__ like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. +4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew __them__ unto thee __art__ thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. +5 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits __long__ by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed. +6 ¶ Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, __which__ __was__ one reed broad; and the other threshold __of__ __the__ __gate__, __which__ __was__ one reed broad. +7 And __every__ little chamber __was__ one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers __were__ five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within __was__ one reed. +8 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed. +9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate __was__ inward. +10 And the little chambers of the gate eastward __were__ three on this side, and three on that side; they three __were__ of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side. +11 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; __and__ the length of the gate, thirteen cubits. +12 The space also before the little chambers __was__ one cubit __on__ __this__ __side__, and the space __was__ one cubit on that side: and the little chambers __were__ six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side. +13 He measured then the gate from the roof of __one__ little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth __was__ five and twenty cubits, door against door. +14 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate. +15 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate __were__ fifty cubits. +16 And __there__ __were__ narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows __were__ round about inward: and upon __each__ post __were__ palm trees. +17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, __there__ __were__ chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers __were__ upon the pavement. +18 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates __was__ the lower pavement. +19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward. +20 ¶ And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof. +21 And the little chambers thereof __were__ three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof __was__ fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. +22 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, __were__ after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof __were__ before them. +23 And the gate of the inner court __was__ over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits. +24 ¶ After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures. +25 And __there__ __were__ windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length __was__ fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. +26 And __there__ __were__ seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof __were__ before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. +27 And __there__ __was__ a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits. +28 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures; +29 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and __there__ __were__ windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: __it__ __was__ fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. +30 And the arches round about __were__ five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. +31 And the arches thereof __were__ toward the utter court; and palm trees __were__ upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it __had__ eight steps. +32 ¶ And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. +33 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, __were__ according to these measures: and __there__ __were__ windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: __it__ __was__ fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. +34 And the arches thereof __were__ toward the outward court; and palm trees __were__ upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it __had__ eight steps. +35 ¶ And he brought me to the north gate, and measured __it__ according to these measures; +36 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length __was__ fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. +37 And the posts thereof __were__ toward the utter court; and palm trees __were__ upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it __had__ eight steps. +38 And the chambers and the entries thereof __were__ by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering. +39 ¶ And in the porch of the gate __were__ two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering. +40 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, __were__ two tables; and on the other side, which __was__ at the porch of the gate, __were__ two tables. +41 Four tables __were__ on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew __their__ __sacrifices__. +42 And the four tables __were__ of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice. +43 And within __were__ hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables __was__ the flesh of the offering. +44 ¶ And without the inner gate __were__ the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which __was__ at the side of the north gate; and their prospect __was__ toward the south: one at the side of the east gate __having__ the prospect toward the north. +45 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect __is__ toward the south, __is__ for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house. +46 And the chamber whose prospect __is__ toward the north __is__ for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these __are__ the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to minister unto him. +47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar __that__ __was__ before the house. +48 ¶ And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured __each__ post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate __was__ three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side. +49 The length of the porch __was__ twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; and __he__ __brought__ __me__ by the steps whereby they went up to it: and __there__ __were__ pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side. +:::SET CHAPTER 41 +1 AFTERWARD he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, __which__ __was__ the breadth of the tabernacle. +2 And the breadth of the door __was__ ten cubits; and the sides of the door __were__ five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits. +3 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits. +4 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This __is__ the most holy __place__. +5 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of __every__ side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side. +6 And the side chambers __were__ three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which __was__ of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house. +7 And __there__ __was__ an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house __was__ __still__ upward, and so increased __from__ the lowest __chamber__ to the highest by the midst. +8 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers __were__ a full reed of six great cubits. +9 The thickness of the wall, which __was__ for the side chamber without, __was__ five cubits: and __that__ which __was__ left __was__ the place of the side chambers that __were__ within. +10 And between the chambers __was__ the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side. +11 And the doors of the side chambers __were__ toward __the__ __place__ __that__ __was__ left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left __was__ five cubits round about. +12 Now the building that __was__ before the separate place at the end toward the west __was__ seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building __was__ five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits. +13 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long; +14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits. +15 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which __was__ behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court; +16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows __were__ covered; +17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure. +18 And __it__ __was__ made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree __was__ between a cherub and a cherub; and __every__ cherub had two faces; +19 So that the face of a man __was__ toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: __it__ __was__ made through all the house round about. +20 From the ground unto above the door __were__ cherubims and palm trees made, and __on__ the wall of the temple. +21 The posts of the temple __were__ squared, __and__ the face of the sanctuary; the appearance __of__ __the__ __one__ as the appearance __of__ __the__ __other__. +22 The altar of wood __was__ three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, __were__ of wood: and he said unto me, This __is__ the table that __is__ before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors. +24 And the doors had two leaves __apiece__, two turning leaves; two __leaves__ for the one door, and two leaves for the other __door__. +25 And __there__ __were__ made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as __were__ made upon the walls; and __there__ __were__ thick planks upon the face of the porch without. +26 And __there__ __were__ narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and __upon__ the side chambers of the house, and thick planks. +:::SET CHAPTER 42 +1 THEN he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that __was__ over against the separate place, and which __was__ before the building toward the north. +2 Before the length of an hundred cubits __was__ the north door, and the breadth __was__ fifty cubits. +3 Over against the twenty __cubits__ which __were__ for the inner court, and over against the pavement which __was__ for the utter court, __was__ gallery against gallery in three __stories__. +4 And before the chambers __was__ a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north. +5 Now the upper chambers __were__ shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building. +6 For they __were__ in three __stories__, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore __the__ __building__ was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. +7 And the wall that __was__ without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof __was__ fifty cubits. +8 For the length of the chambers that __were__ in the utter court __was__ fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple __were__ an hundred cubits. +9 And from under these chambers __was__ the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court. +10 The chambers __were__ in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building. +11 And the way before them __was__ like the appearance of the chambers which __were__ toward the north, as long as they, __and__ as broad as they: and all their goings out __were__ both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. +12 And according to the doors of the chambers that __were__ toward the south __was__ a door in the head of the way, __even__ the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them. +13 ¶ Then said he unto me, The north chambers __and__ the south chambers, which __are__ before the separate place, they __be__ holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place __is__ holy. +14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy __place__ into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they __are__ holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to __those__ __things__ which __are__ for the people. +15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect __is__ toward the east, and measured it round about. +16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. +17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about. +18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. +19 ¶ He turned about to the west side, __and__ measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed. +20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred __reeds__ long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place. +:::SET CHAPTER 43 +1 AFTERWARD he brought me to the gate, __even__ the gate that looketh toward the east: +2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice __was__ like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. +3 And __it__ __was__ according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, __even__ according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions __were__ like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. +4 And the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect __is__ toward the east. +5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ filled the house. +6 And I heard __him__ speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. +7 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, __neither__ they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. +8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. +9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. +10 ¶ Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern. +11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write __it__ in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them. +12 This __is__ the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about __shall__ __be__ most holy. Behold, this __is__ the law of the house. +13 ¶ And these __are__ the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit __is__ a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom __shall__ __be__ a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about __shall__ __be__ a span: and this __shall__ __be__ the higher place of the altar. +14 And from the bottom __upon__ the ground __even__ to the lower settle __shall__ __be__ two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle __even__ to the greater settle __shall__ __be__ four cubits, and the breadth __one__ cubit. +15 So the altar __shall__ __be__ four cubits; and from the altar and upward __shall__ __be__ four horns. +16 And the altar __shall__ __be__ twelve __cubits__ long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof. +17 And the settle __shall__ __be__ fourteen __cubits__ long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it __shall__ __be__ half a cubit; and the bottom thereof __shall__ __be__ a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east. +18 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; These __are__ the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. +19 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, a young bullock for a sin offering. +20 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put __it__ on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it. +21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary. +22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse __it__ with the bullock. +23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing __it__, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish. +24 And thou shalt offer them before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up __for__ a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat __for__ a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. +26 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves. +27 And when these days are expired, it shall be, __that__ upon the eighth day, and __so__ forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 44 +1 THEN he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it __was__ shut. +2 Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut. +3 __It__ __is__ for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; he shall enter by the way of the porch of __that__ gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. +4 ¶ Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ filled the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and I fell upon my face. +5 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. +6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, __even__ to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, +7 In that ye have brought __into__ __my__ __sanctuary__ strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, __even__ my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. +8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. +9 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that __is__ among the children of Israel. +10 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. +11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, __having__ charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them. +12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, and they shall bear their iniquity. +13 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy __place:__ but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed. +14 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. +15 ¶ But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: +16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge. +17 ¶ And it shall come to pass, __that__ when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. +18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird __themselves__ with any thing that causeth sweat. +19 And when they go forth into the utter court, __even__ into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments. +20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. +21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court. +22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. +23 And they shall teach my people __the__ __difference__ between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. +24 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; __and__ they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths. +25 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves. +26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days. +27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I __am__ their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I __am__ their possession. +29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs. +30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all __things__, and every oblation of all, of every __sort__ of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house. +31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. +:::SET CHAPTER 45 +1 MOREOVER, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, an holy portion of the land: the length __shall__ __be__ the length of five and twenty thousand __reeds__, and the breadth __shall__ __be__ ten thousand. This __shall__ __be__ holy in all the borders thereof round about. +2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred __in__ __length__, with five hundred __in__ __breadth__, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. +3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary __and__ the most holy __place__. +4 The holy __portion__ of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary. +5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers. +6 ¶ And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy __portion:__ it shall be for the whole house of Israel. +7 ¶ And __a__ __portion__ __shall__ __be__ for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy __portion__, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy __portion__, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length __shall__ __be__ over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border. +8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and __the__ __rest__ __of__ the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes. +9 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. +11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer. +12 And the shekel __shall__ __be__ twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. +13 This __is__ the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley: +14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, __ye__ __shall__ __offer__ the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, __which__ __is__ an homer of ten baths; for ten baths __are__ an homer: +15 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +16 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel. +17 And it shall be the prince's part __to__ __give__ burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. +18 Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; In the first __month__, in the first __day__ of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: +19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put __it__ upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court. +20 And so thou shalt do the seventh __day__ of the month for every one that erreth, and for __him__ __that__ __is__ simple: so shall ye reconcile the house. +21 In the first __month__, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. +22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock __for__ a sin offering. +23 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily __for__ a sin offering. +24 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. +25 In the seventh __month__, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil. +:::SET CHAPTER 46 +1 THUS saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. +2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of __that__ gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. +3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the sabbaths and in the new moons. +4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the sabbath day __shall__ __be__ six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. +5 And the meat offering __shall__ __be__ an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. +6 And in the day of the new moon __it__ __shall__ __be__ a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. +7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. +8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of __that__ gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof. +9 ¶ But when the people of the land shall come before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. +10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth. +11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. +12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __one__ shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth __one__ shall shut the gate. +13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __of__ a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning. +14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning __for__ a continual burnt offering. +16 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it __shall__ __be__ their possession by inheritance. +17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them. +18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; __but__ he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession. +19 ¶ After he brought me through the entry, which __was__ at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there __was__ a place on the two sides westward. +20 Then said he unto me, This __is__ the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear __them__ not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people. +21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court __there__ __was__ a court. +22 In the four corners of the court __there__ __were__ courts joined of forty __cubits__ long and thirty broad: these four corners __were__ of one measure. +23 And __there__ __was__ a row __of__ __building__ round about in them, round about them four, and __it__ __was__ made with boiling places under the rows round about. +24 Then said he unto me, These __are__ the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people. +:::SET CHAPTER 47 +1 AFTERWARD he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house __stood__ __toward__ the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south __side__ of the altar. +2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side. +3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters __were__ to the ancles. +4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters __were__ to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters __were__ to the loins. +5 Afterward he measured a thousand; __and__ __it__ __was__ a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. +6 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen __this?__ Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. +7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river __were__ very many trees on the one side and on the other. +8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: __which__ __being__ brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. +9 And it shall come to pass, __that__ every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. +10 And it shall come to pass, __that__ the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a __place__ to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. +11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. +12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. +13 ¶ Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; This __shall__ __be__ the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph __shall__ __have__ __two__ portions. +14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: __concerning__ the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance. +15 And this __shall__ __be__ the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; +16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which __is__ between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar-hatticon, which __is__ by the coast of Hauran. +17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And __this__ __is__ the north side. +18 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel __by__ Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And __this__ __is__ the east side. +19 And the south side southward, from Tamar __even__ to the waters of strife __in__ Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And __this__ __is__ the south side southward. +20 The west side also __shall__ __be__ the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This __is__ the west side. +21 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel. +22 ¶ And it shall come to pass, __that__ ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. +23 And it shall come to pass, __that__ in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give __him__ his inheritance, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 48 +1 NOW these __are__ the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east __and__ west; a __portion__ __for__ Dan. +2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a __portion__ __for__ Asher. +3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a __portion__ __for__ Naphtali. +4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a __portion__ __for__ Manasseh. +5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a __portion__ __for__ Ephraim. +6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a __portion__ __for__ Reuben. +7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a __portion__ __for__ Judah. +8 ¶ And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand __reeds__ __in__ breadth, and __in__ length as one of the __other__ parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. +9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __shall__ __be__ of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth. +10 And for them, __even__ for the priests, shall be __this__ holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand __in__ __length__, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be in the midst thereof. +11 __It__ __shall__ __be__ for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray. +12 And __this__ oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites. +13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites __shall__ __have__ five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length __shall__ __be__ five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand. +14 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for __it__ __is__ holy unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 ¶ And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane __place__ for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof. +16 And these __shall__ __be__ the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred. +17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty. +18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy __portion__ __shall__ __be__ ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy __portion;__ and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city. +19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel. +20 All the oblation __shall__ __be__ five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city. +21 ¶ And the residue __shall__ __be__ for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house __shall__ __be__ in the midst thereof. +22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, __being__ in the midst __of__ __that__ which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince. +23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin __shall__ __have__ a __portion__. +24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon __shall__ __have__ a __portion__. +25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a __portion__. +26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a __portion__. +27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a __portion__. +28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar __unto__ the waters of strife __in__ Kadesh, __and__ to the river toward the great sea. +29 This __is__ the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these __are__ their portions, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +30 ¶ And these __are__ the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures. +31 And the gates of the city __shall__ __be__ after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. +32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan. +33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. +34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, __with__ their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali. +35 __It__ __was__ round about eighteen thousand __measures:__ and the name of the city from __that__ day __shall__ __be__, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ there. +:::SET BOOK Daniel +:::SET TITLE The Book of Daniel +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 IN the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. +2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. +3 ¶ And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring __certain__ of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes; +4 Children in whom __was__ no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as __had__ ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. +5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. +6 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: +7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel __the__ __name__ of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego. +8 ¶ But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. +9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. +10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which __are__ of your sort? then shall ye make __me__ endanger my head to the king. +11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, +12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. +13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants. +14 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days. +15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. +16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse. +17 ¶ As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. +18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. +19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king. +20 And in all matters of wisdom __and__ understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians __and__ astrologers that __were__ in all his realm. +21 And Daniel continued __even__ unto the first year of king Cyrus. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. +2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. +3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. +4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation. +5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. +6 But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. +7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it. +8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. +9 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, __there__ __is__ __but__ one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof. +10 ¶ The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore __there__ __is__ no king, lord, nor ruler, __that__ asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. +11 And __it__ __is__ a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. +12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise __men__ of Babylon. +13 And the decree went forth that the wise __men__ should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain. +14 ¶ Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise __men__ of Babylon: +15 He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why __is__ the decree __so__ hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. +16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation. +17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: +18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise __men__ of Babylon. +19 ¶ Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. +20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: +21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: +22 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what __is__ in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. +23 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast __now__ made known unto us the king's matter. +24 ¶ Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise __men__ of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise __men__ of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation. +25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation. +26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name __was__ Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? +27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise __men__, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; +28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; +29 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came __into__ __thy__ __mind__ upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. +30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for __any__ wisdom that I have more than any living, but for __their__ sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. +31 ¶ Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness __was__ excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof __was__ terrible. +32 This image's head __was__ of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, +33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. +34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet __that__ __were__ of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. +35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. +36 ¶ This __is__ the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. +37 Thou, O king, __art__ a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. +38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou __art__ this head of gold. +39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. +40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all __things:__ and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. +41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. +42 And __as__ the toes of the feet __were__ part of iron, and part of clay, __so__ the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. +43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. +44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, __but__ it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. +45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream __is__ certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. +46 ¶ Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. +47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth __it__ __is__, that your God __is__ a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret. +48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise __men__ of Babylon. +49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel __sat__ in the gate of the king. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king made an image of gold, whose height __was__ threescore cubits, __and__ the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. +2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. +3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. +4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, +5 __That__ at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: +6 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. +7 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down __and__ worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. +8 ¶ Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. +9 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. +10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: +11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, __that__ he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. +12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. +13 ¶ Then Nebuchadnezzar in __his__ rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king. +14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, __Is__ __it__ true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up? +15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; __well:__ but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who __is__ that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? +16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we __are__ not careful to answer thee in this matter. +17 If it be __so__, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver __us__ out of thine hand, O king. +18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. +19 ¶ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: __therefore__ he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. +20 And he commanded the most mighty men that __were__ in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, __and__ to cast __them__ into the burning fiery furnace. +21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their __other__ garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. +22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. +23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. +24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, __and__ spake, and said unto his counsellers, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. +25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. +26 ¶ Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, __and__ spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come __hither__. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, came forth of the midst of the fire. +27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellers, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. +28 __Then__ Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed __be__ the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. +29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. +30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, in the province of Babylon. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 NEBUCHADNEZZAR the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. +2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. +3 How great __are__ his signs! and how mighty __are__ his wonders! his kingdom __is__ an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion __is__ from generation to generation. +4 ¶ I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace: +5 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. +6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise __men__ of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. +7 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof. +8 ¶ But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name __was__ Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom __is__ the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, __saying__, +9 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods __is__ in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof. +10 Thus __were__ the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof __was__ great. +11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: +12 The leaves thereof __were__ fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it __was__ meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it. +13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; +14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: +15 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and __let__ his portion __be__ with the beasts in the grass of the earth: +16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him. +17 This matter __is__ by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. +18 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise __men__ of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou __art__ able; for the spirit of the holy gods __is__ in thee. +19 ¶ Then Daniel, whose name __was__ Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream __be__ to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies. +20 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; +21 Whose leaves __were__ fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it __was__ meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation: +22 It __is__ thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth. +23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and __let__ his portion __be__ with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him; +24 This __is__ the interpretation, O king, and this __is__ the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king: +25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. +26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule. +27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity. +28 ¶ All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. +29 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. +30 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty? +31 While the word __was__ in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, __saying__, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. +32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling __shall__ __be__ with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. +33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' __feathers__, and his nails like birds' __claws__. +34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion __is__ an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom __is__ from generation to generation: +35 And all the inhabitants of the earth __are__ reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and __among__ the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? +36 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellers and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me. +37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works __are__ truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. +2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which __was__ in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. +3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which __was__ at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. +4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. +5 ¶ In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. +6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. +7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. __And__ the king spake, and said to the wise __men__ of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and __have__ a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. +8 Then came in all the king's wise __men:__ but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. +9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied. +10 ¶ __Now__ the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: __and__ the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: +11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom __is__ the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, __I__ __say__, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, __and__ soothsayers; +12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation. +13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. __And__ the king spake and said unto Daniel, __Art__ thou that Daniel, which __art__ of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? +14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods __is__ in thee, and __that__ light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. +15 And now the wise __men__, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing: +16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and __have__ a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. +17 ¶ Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. +18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: +19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. +20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: +21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling __was__ with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and __that__ he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. +22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; +23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath __is__, and whose __are__ all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: +24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. +25 ¶ And this __is__ the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. +26 This __is__ the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. +27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. +28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. +29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and __put__ a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. +30 ¶ In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. +31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, __being__ about threescore and two years old. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 IT pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; +2 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel __was__ first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage. +3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit __was__ in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. +4 ¶ Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he __was__ faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. +5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find __it__ against him concerning the law of his God. +6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. +7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellers, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. +8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. +9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. +10 ¶ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. +11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. +12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask __a__ __petition__ of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing __is__ true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. +13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which __is__ of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. +14 Then the king, when he heard __these__ words, was sore displeased with himself, and set __his__ heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him. +15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians __is__, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed. +16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast __him__ into the den of lions. __Now__ the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. +17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel. +18 ¶ Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him. +19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. +20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: __and__ the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? +21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. +22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. +23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. +24 ¶ And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast __them__ into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. +25 ¶ Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. +26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he __is__ the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom __that__ which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion __shall__ __be__ __even__ unto the end. +27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. +28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 IN the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, __and__ told the sum of the matters. +2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. +3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. +4 The first __was__ like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. +5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and __it__ __had__ three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. +6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. +7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it __was__ diverse from all the beasts that __were__ before it; and it had ten horns. +8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn __were__ eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things. +9 ¶ I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment __was__ white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne __was__ __like__ the fiery flame, __and__ his wheels __as__ burning fire. +10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. +11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld __even__ till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. +12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. +13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, __one__ like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. +14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion __is__ an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom __that__ which shall not be destroyed. +15 ¶ I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of __my__ body, and the visions of my head troubled me. +16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. +17 These great beasts, which are four, __are__ four kings, __which__ shall arise out of the earth. +18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. +19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth __were__ __of__ iron, and his nails __of__ brass; __which__ devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; +20 And of the ten horns that __were__ in his head, and __of__ the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even __of__ that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look __was__ more stout than his fellows. +21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; +22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. +23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. +24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom __are__ ten kings __that__ shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. +25 And he shall speak __great__ words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. +26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy __it__ unto the end. +27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom __is__ an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. +28 Hitherto __is__ the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 IN the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, __even__ __unto__ me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. +2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I __was__ at Shushan __in__ the palace, which __is__ in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. +3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had __two__ horns: and the __two__ horns __were__ high; but one __was__ higher than the other, and the higher came up last. +4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither __was__ __there__ __any__ that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great. +5 And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat __had__ a notable horn between his eyes. +6 And he came to the ram that had __two__ horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. +7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. +8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. +9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant __land__. +10 And it waxed great, __even__ to the host of heaven; and it cast down __some__ of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. +11 Yea, he magnified __himself__ even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily __sacrifice__ was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. +12 And an host was given __him__ against the daily __sacrifice__ by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. +13 ¶ Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain __saint__ which spake, How long __shall__ __be__ the vision __concerning__ the daily __sacrifice__, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? +14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. +15 ¶ And it came to pass, when I, __even__ I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. +16 And I heard a man's voice between __the__ __banks__ __of__ Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this __man__ to understand the vision. +17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end __shall__ __be__ the vision. +18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright. +19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end __shall__ __be__. +20 The ram which thou sawest having __two__ horns __are__ the kings of Media and Persia. +21 And the rough goat __is__ the king of Grecia: and the great horn that __is__ between his eyes __is__ the first king. +22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. +23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. +24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. +25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify __himself__ in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. +26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told __is__ true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it __shall__ __be__ for many days. +27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick __certain__ days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood __it__. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 IN the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; +2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. +3 ¶ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: +4 And I prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; +5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: +6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. +7 O Lord, righteousness __belongeth__ unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, __that__ __are__ near, and __that__ __are__ far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. +8 O Lord, to us __belongeth__ confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. +9 To the Lord our God __belong__ mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; +10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. +11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that __is__ written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. +12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. +13 As __it__ __is__ written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. +14 Therefore hath the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God __is__ righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. +15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly. +16 ¶ O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people __are__ __become__ a reproach to all __that__ __are__ about us. +17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. +18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. +19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. +20 ¶ And whiles I __was__ speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God for the holy mountain of my God; +21 Yea, whiles I __was__ speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. +22 And he informed __me__, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. +23 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew __thee;__ for thou __art__ greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. +24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. +25 Know therefore and understand, __that__ from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince __shall__ __be__ seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. +26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof __shall__ __be__ with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. +27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make __it__ desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 IN the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing __was__ true, but the time appointed __was__ long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. +2 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. +3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. +4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which __is__ Hiddekel; +5 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins __were__ girded with fine gold of Uphaz: +6 His body also __was__ like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. +7 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. +8 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. +9 Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground. +10 ¶ And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and __upon__ the palms of my hands. +11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. +12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. +13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. +14 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision __is__ for __many__ days. +15 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb. +16 And, behold, __one__ like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength. +17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me. +18 Then there came again and touched me __one__ like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, +19 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace __be__ unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me. +20 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. +21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and __there__ __is__ none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 ALSO I in the first year of Darius the Mede, __even__ I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. +2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than __they__ all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia. +3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. +4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those. +5 ¶ And the king of the south shall be strong, and __one__ of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion __shall__ __be__ a great dominion. +6 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in __these__ times. +7 But out of a branch of her roots shall __one__ stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail: +8 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, __and__ with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue __more__ years than the king of the north. +9 So the king of the south shall come into __his__ kingdom, and shall return into his own land. +10 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and __one__ shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, __even__ to his fortress. +11 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, __even__ with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand. +12 __And__ when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down __many__ ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened __by__ __it__. +13 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches. +14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall. +15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither __shall__ __there__ __be__ __any__ strength to withstand. +16 But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed. +17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand __on__ __his__ __side__, neither be for him. +18 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause __it__ to turn upon him. +19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. +20 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes __in__ the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. +21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. +22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. +23 And after the league __made__ with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people. +24 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do __that__ which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: __yea__, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time. +25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him. +26 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain. +27 And both these kings' hearts __shall__ __be__ to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end __shall__ __be__ at the time appointed. +28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart __shall__ __be__ against the holy covenant; and he shall do __exploits__, and return to his own land. +29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter. +30 ¶ For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. +31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily __sacrifice__, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. +32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do __exploits__. +33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, __many__ days. +34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. +35 And __some__ of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make __them__ white, __even__ to the time of the end: because __it__ __is__ yet for a time appointed. +36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done. +37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. +38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things. +39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge __and__ increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain. +40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. +41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many __countries__ shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, __even__ Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. +42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. +43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians __shall__ __be__ at his steps. +44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. +45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation __even__ to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. +2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame __and__ everlasting contempt. +3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. +4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, __even__ to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. +5 ¶ Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. +6 And __one__ said to the man clothed in linen, which __was__ upon the waters of the river, How long __shall__ __it__ __be__ __to__ the end of these wonders? +7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which __was__ upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that __it__ __shall__ __be__ for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these __things__ shall be finished. +8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what __shall__ __be__ the end of these __things?__ +9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words __are__ closed up and sealed till the time of the end. +10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. +11 And from the time __that__ the daily __sacrifice__ shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, __there__ __shall__ __be__ a thousand two hundred and ninety days. +12 Blessed __is__ he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. +13 But go thou thy way till the end __be:__ for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. +:::SET BOOK Hosea +:::SET TITLE Hosea +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, __and__ Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. +2 The beginning of the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by Hosea. And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, __departing__ from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. +4 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little __while__, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. +5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. +6 ¶ And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And __God__ said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. +7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. +8 ¶ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. +9 Then said __God__, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye __are__ not my people, and I will not be your __God__. +10 ¶ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, __that__ in the place where it was said unto them, Ye __are__ not my people, __there__ it shall be said unto them, __Ye__ __are__ the sons of the living God. +11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great __shall__ __be__ the day of Jezreel. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 SAY ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ru-hamah. +2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she __is__ not my wife, neither __am__ I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; +3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. +4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they __be__ the children of whoredoms. +5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give __me__ my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. +6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. +7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find __them:__ then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then __was__ __it__ better with me than now. +8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, __which__ they prepared for Baal. +9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax __given__ to cover her nakedness. +10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. +11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. +12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These __are__ my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. +13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. +15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. +16 And it shall be at that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __that__ thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. +17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. +18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and __with__ the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. +19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. +20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; +22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. +23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to __them__ __which__ __were__ not my people, Thou __art__ my people; and they shall say, __Thou__ __art__ my God. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THEN said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of __her__ friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. +2 So I bought her to me for fifteen __pieces__ of silver, and __for__ an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: +3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for __another__ man: so __will__ I also __be__ for thee. +4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and __without__ teraphim: +5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and David their king; and shall fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ and his goodness in the latter days. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 HEAR the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, ye children of Israel: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because __there__ __is__ no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. +2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. +3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. +4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people __are__ as they that strive with the priest. +5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. +6 ¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. +7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: __therefore__ will I change their glory into shame. +8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. +9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. +10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. +12 ¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused __them__ to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. +13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof __is__ good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. +14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people __that__ doth not understand shall fall. +15 ¶ Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, __yet__ let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ liveth. +16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will feed them as a lamb in a large place. +17 Ephraim __is__ joined to idols: let him alone. +18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers __with__ shame do love, Give ye. +19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 HEAR ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment __is__ toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. +2 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I __have__ __been__ a rebuker of them all. +3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, __and__ Israel is defiled. +4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms __is__ in the midst of them, and they have not known the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. +6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; but they shall not find __him;__ he hath withdrawn himself from them. +7 They have dealt treacherously against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. +8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, __and__ the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud __at__ Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. +9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. +10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: __therefore__ I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. +11 Ephraim __is__ oppressed __and__ broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. +12 Therefore __will__ I __be__ unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. +13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah __saw__ his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. +14 For I __will__ __be__ unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, __even__ I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue __him__. +15 ¶ I will go __and__ return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 COME, and let us return unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. +2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. +3 Then shall we know, __if__ we follow on to know the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter __and__ former rain unto the earth. +4 ¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness __is__ as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. +5 Therefore have I hewed __them__ by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments __are__ __as__ the light __that__ goeth forth. +6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. +7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. +8 Gilead __is__ a city of them that work iniquity, __and__ __is__ polluted with blood. +9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, __so__ the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. +10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there __is__ the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. +11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 WHEN I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, __and__ the troop of robbers spoileth without. +2 And they consider not in their hearts __that__ I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. +3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. +4 They __are__ all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, __who__ ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. +5 In the day of our king the princes have made __him__ sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. +6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. +7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: __there__ __is__ none among them that calleth unto me. +8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. +9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth __it__ not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. +10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, nor seek him for all this. +11 ¶ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. +12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. +13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. +14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, __and__ they rebel against me. +15 Though I have bound __and__ strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. +16 They return, __but__ not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this __shall__ __be__ their derision in the land of Egypt. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 __SET__ the trumpet to thy mouth. __He__ __shall__ __come__ as an eagle against the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. +2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. +3 Israel hath cast off __the__ __thing__ __that__ __is__ good: the enemy shall pursue him. +4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew __it__ not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. +5 ¶ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast __thee__ off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long __will__ __it__ __be__ ere they attain to innocency? +6 For from Israel __was__ it also: the workman made it; therefore it __is__ not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. +7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. +8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein __is__ no pleasure. +9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. +10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. +11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. +12 I have written to him the great things of my law, __but__ they were counted as a strange thing. +13 They sacrifice flesh __for__ the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat __it;__ __but__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. +14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 REJOICE not, O Israel, for joy, as __other__ people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. +2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. +3 They shall not dwell in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean __things__ in Assyria. +4 They shall not offer wine __offerings__ to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices __shall__ __be__ unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? +6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant __places__ for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns __shall__ __be__ in their tabernacles. +7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know __it:__ the prophet __is__ a fool, the spiritual man __is__ mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. +8 The watchman of Ephraim __was__ with my God: __but__ the prophet __is__ a snare of a fowler in all his ways, __and__ hatred in the house of his God. +9 They have deeply corrupted __themselves__, as in the days of Gibeah: __therefore__ he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. +10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: __but__ they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto __that__ shame; and __their__ abominations were according as they loved. +11 __As__ __for__ Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. +12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, __that__ __there__ __shall__ not __be__ a man __left:__ yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! +13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, __is__ planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. +14 Give them, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. +15 All their wickedness __is__ in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes __are__ revolters. +16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay __even__ the beloved __fruit__ of their womb. +17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 ISRAEL __is__ an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. +2 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. +3 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; what then should a king do to us? +4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. +5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof __that__ rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it. +6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria __for__ a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. +7 __As__ __for__ Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. +8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. +9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. +10 __It__ __is__ in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. +11 And Ephraim __is__ __as__ an heifer __that__ __is__ taught, __and__ loveth to tread out __the__ __corn;__ but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, __and__ Jacob shall break his clods. +12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for __it__ __is__ time to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. +13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. +14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon __her__ children. +15 So shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 WHEN Israel __was__ a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. +2 __As__ they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. +3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. +4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. +5 ¶ He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return. +6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour __them__, because of their own counsels. +7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt __him__. +8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? __how__ shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? __how__ shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. +9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I __am__ God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city. +10 They shall walk after the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. +11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 EPHRAIM feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. +3 ¶ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: +4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him __in__ Beth-el, and there he spake with us; +5 Even the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ his memorial. +6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. +7 ¶ __He__ __is__ a merchant, the balances of deceit __are__ in his hand: he loveth to oppress. +8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: __in__ all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that __were__ sin. +9 And I __that__ __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. +10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. +11 __Is__ __there__ iniquity __in__ Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars __are__ as heaps in the furrows of the fields. +12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept __sheep__. +13 And by a prophet the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. +14 Ephraim provoked __him__ to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 WHEN Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. +2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, __and__ idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. +3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff __that__ is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. +4 Yet I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for __there__ __is__ no saviour beside me. +5 ¶ I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. +6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. +7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe __them:__ +8 I will meet them as a bear __that__ __is__ bereaved __of__ __her__ __whelps__, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. +9 ¶ O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me __is__ thine help. +10 I will be thy king: where __is__ __any__ __other__ that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes? +11 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took __him__ away in my wrath. +12 The iniquity of Ephraim __is__ bound up; his sin __is__ hid. +13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he __is__ an unwise son; for he should not stay long in __the__ __place__ __of__ the breaking forth of children. +14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. +15 ¶ Though he be fruitful among __his__ brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels. +16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 O ISRAEL, return unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. +2 Take with you words, and turn to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive __us__ graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. +3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, __Ye__ __are__ our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. +4 ¶ I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. +5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. +6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. +7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive __as__ the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof __shall__ __be__ as the wine of Lebanon. +8 Ephraim __shall__ __say__, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard __him__, and observed him: I __am__ like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found. +9 Who __is__ wise, and he shall understand these __things?__ prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __are__ right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. +:::SET BOOK Joel +:::SET TITLE Joel +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. +2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? +3 Tell ye your children of it, and __let__ your children __tell__ their children, and their children another generation. +4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten. +5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth. +6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth __are__ the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. +7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast __it__ away; the branches thereof are made white. +8 ¶ Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. +9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; the priests, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s ministers, mourn. +10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth. +11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. +12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, __even__ all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. +13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. +14 ¶ Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders __and__ all the inhabitants of the land __into__ the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and cry unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +15 Alas for the day! for the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. +16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, __yea__, joy and gladness from the house of our God? +17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered. +18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. +19 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. +20 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 BLOW ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cometh, for __it__ __is__ nigh at hand; +2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, __even__ to the years of many generations. +3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land __is__ as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. +4 The appearance of them __is__ as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. +5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. +6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. +7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: +8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and __when__ they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. +9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. +10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: +11 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp __is__ very great: for __he__ __is__ strong that executeth his word: for the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ great and very terrible; and who can abide it? +12 ¶ Therefore also now, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, turn ye __even__ to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: +13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God: for he __is__ gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. +14 Who knoweth __if__ he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; __even__ a meat offering and a drink offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God? +15 ¶ Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: +16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. +17 Let the priests, the ministers of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where __is__ their God? +18 ¶ Then will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be jealous for his land, and pity his people. +19 Yea, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: +20 But I will remove far off from you the northern __army__, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. +21 ¶ Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will do great things. +22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. +23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first __month__. +24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. +25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. +26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. +27 And ye shall know that I __am__ in the midst of Israel, and __that__ I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. +28 ¶ And it shall come to pass afterward, __that__ I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: +29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. +30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. +31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ come. +32 And it shall come to pass, __that__ whosoever shall call on the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath said, and in the remnant whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall call. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 FOR, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, +2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and __for__ my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. +3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. +4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly __and__ speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; +5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: +6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. +7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: +8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken __it__. +9 ¶ Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: +10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I __am__ strong. +11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. +13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness __is__ great. +14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ near in the valley of decision. +15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. +16 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __will__ __be__ the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. +17 So shall ye know that I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. +18 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and shall water the valley of Shittim. +19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence __against__ the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. +20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. +21 For I will cleanse their blood __that__ I have not cleansed: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ dwelleth in Zion. +:::SET BOOK Amos +:::SET TITLE Amos +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. +2 And he said, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither. +3 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away __the__ __punishment__ thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: +4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad. +5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away __the__ __punishment__ thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver __them__ up to Edom: +7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof: +8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +9 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away __the__ __punishment__ thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant: +10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof. +11 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away __the__ __punishment__ thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: +12 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. +13 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away __the__ __punishment__ thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: +14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind: +15 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THUS saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away __the__ __punishment__ thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: +2 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, __and__ with the sound of the trumpet: +3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away __the__ __punishment__ thereof; because they have despised the law of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: +5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. +6 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away __the__ __punishment__ thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; +7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the __same__ maid, to profane my holy name: +8 And they lay __themselves__ down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned __in__ the house of their god. +9 ¶ Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height __was__ like the height of the cedars, and he __was__ strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. +10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. +11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. __Is__ __it__ not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not. +13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed __that__ __is__ full of sheaves. +14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: +15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and __he__ __that__ __is__ swift of foot shall not deliver __himself:__ neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself. +16 And __he__ __that__ __is__ courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 HEAR this word that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, +2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. +3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? +4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? +5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin __is__ for him? shall __one__ take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all? +6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath not done __it?__ +7 Surely the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. +8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ hath spoken, who can but prophesy? +9 ¶ Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. +10 For they know not to do right, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. +11 Therefore thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; An adversary __there__ __shall__ __be__ even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled. +12 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus __in__ a couch. +13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, the God of hosts, +14 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. +15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 HEAR this word, ye kine of Bashan, that __are__ in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. +2 The Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. +3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every __cow__ __at__ __that__ __which__ __is__ before her; and ye shall cast __them__ into the palace, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 ¶ Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, __and__ your tithes after three years: +5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim __and__ publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +6 ¶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when __there__ __were__ yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. +8 So two __or__ three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured __them:__ yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 I have overthrown __some__ of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: __and__ because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. +13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what __is__ his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, The God of hosts, __is__ his name. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 HEAR ye this word which I take up against you, __even__ a lamentation, O house of Israel. +2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; __there__ __is__ none to raise her up. +3 For thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$; The city that went out __by__ a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth __by__ an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel. +4 ¶ For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: +5 But seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought. +6 Seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour __it__, and __there__ __be__ none to quench __it__ in Beth-el. +7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, +8 __Seek__ __him__ that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ his name: +9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. +10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. +11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading __is__ upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. +12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate __from__ __their__ __right__. +13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it __is__ an evil time. +14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. +15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. +16 Therefore the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing __shall__ __be__ in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. +17 And in all vineyards __shall__ __be__ wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$! to what end __is__ it for you? the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ darkness, and not light. +19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. +20 __Shall__ not the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __be__ darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? +21 ¶ I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. +22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept __them:__ neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. +23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. +24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. +25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? +26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. +27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, whose name __is__ The God of hosts. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 WOE to them __that__ __are__ at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, __which__ __are__ named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! +2 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: __be__ __they__ better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? +3 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; +4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; +5 That chant to the sound of the viol, __and__ invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; +6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. +7 ¶ Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. +8 The Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ hath sworn by himself, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. +9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. +10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that __is__ by the sides of the house, __Is__ __there__ yet __any__ with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 For, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts. +12 ¶ Shall horses run upon the rock? will __one__ plow __there__ with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: +13 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength? +14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 THUS hath the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, __it__ __was__ the latter growth after the king's mowings. +2 And it came to pass, __that__ when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he __is__ small. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ repented for this: It shall not be, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 ¶ Thus hath the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. +5 Then said I, O Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he __is__ small. +6 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$. +7 ¶ Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall __made__ by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. +8 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more: +9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. +10 ¶ Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. +11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land. +12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: +13 But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it __is__ the king's chapel, and it __is__ the king's court. +14 ¶ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I __was__ no prophet, neither __was__ I a prophet's son; but I __was__ an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: +15 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ took me as I followed the flock, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. +16 ¶ Now therefore hear thou the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not __thy__ __word__ against the house of Isaac. +17 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 THUS hath the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. +2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. +3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: __there__ __shall__ __be__ many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast __them__ forth with silence. +4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, +5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? +6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; __yea__, and sell the refuse of the wheat? +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. +8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as __by__ the flood of Egypt. +9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: +10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only __son__, and the end thereof as a bitter day. +11 ¶ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and shall not find __it__. +13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. +14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 I SAW the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. +2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: +3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: +4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. +5 And the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ of hosts __is__ he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as __by__ the flood of Egypt. +6 __It__ __is__ he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ his name. +7 __Are__ ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? +8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ __are__ upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as __corn__ is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. +10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us. +11 ¶ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: +12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that doeth this. +13 Behold, the days come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. +14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit __them;__ and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. +15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God. +:::SET BOOK Obadiah +:::SET TITLE Obadiah +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. +2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised. +3 ¶ The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation __is__ high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? +4 Though thou exalt __thyself__ as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave __some__ grapes? +6 How are __the__ __things__ of Esau searched out! __how__ are his hidden things sought up! +7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee __even__ to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, __and__ prevailed against thee; __they__ __that__ __eat__ thy bread have laid a wound under thee: __there__ __is__ none understanding in him. +8 Shall I not in that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, even destroy the wise __men__ out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau? +9 And thy mighty __men__, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter. +10 ¶ For __thy__ violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. +11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou __wast__ as one of them. +12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. +13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid __hands__ on their substance in the day of their calamity; +14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. +15 For the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. +16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, __so__ shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. +17 ¶ But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. +18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be __any__ remaining of the house of Esau; for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath spoken __it__. +19 And __they__ __of__ the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and __they__ __of__ the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin __shall__ __possess__ Gilead. +20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel __shall__ __possess__ that of the Canaanites, __even__ unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which __is__ in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. +21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s. +:::SET BOOK Jonah +:::SET TITLE Jonah +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 NOW the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, +2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. +3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 ¶ But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. +5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that __were__ in the ship into the sea, to lighten __it__ of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. +6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. +7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil __is__ upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah. +8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil __is__ upon us; What __is__ thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what __is__ thy country? and of what people __art__ thou? +9 And he said unto them, I __am__ an Hebrew; and I fear the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry __land__. +10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because he had told them. +11 ¶ Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous. +12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest __is__ upon you. +13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring __it__ to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them. +14 Wherefore they cried unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, We beseech thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, hast done as it pleased thee. +15 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging. +16 Then the men feared the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and made vows. +17 ¶ Now the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THEN Jonah prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God out of the fish's belly, +2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, __and__ thou heardest my voice. +3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. +4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. +5 The waters compassed me about, __even__ to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. +6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars __was__ about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God. +7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. +8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. +9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay __that__ that I have vowed. Salvation __is__ of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +10 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry __land__. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Jonah the second time, saying, +2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. +3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. +4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. +5 ¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. +6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered __him__ with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. +7 And he caused __it__ to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: +8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that __is__ in their hands. +9 Who can tell __if__ God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? +10 ¶ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did __it__ not. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 BUT it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. +2 And he prayed unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and said, I pray thee, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __was__ not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou __art__ a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. +3 Therefore now, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for __it__ __is__ better for me to die than to live. +4 ¶ Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Doest thou well to be angry? +5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city. +6 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God prepared a gourd, and made __it__ to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. +7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. +8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, __It__ __is__ better for me to die than to live. +9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, __even__ unto death. +10 Then said the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: +11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and __also__ much cattle? +:::SET BOOK Micah +:::SET TITLE Micah +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, __and__ Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. +2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. +3 For, behold, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. +4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, __and__ as the waters __that__ __are__ poured down a steep place. +5 For the transgression of Jacob __is__ all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What __is__ the transgression of Jacob? __is__ __it__ not Samaria? and what __are__ the high places of Judah? __are__ __they__ not Jerusalem? +6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, __and__ as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. +7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered __it__ of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. +8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. +9 For her wound __is__ incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, __even__ to Jerusalem. +10 ¶ Declare ye __it__ not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. +11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he shall receive of you his standing. +12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto the gate of Jerusalem. +13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she __is__ the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee. +14 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib __shall__ __be__ a lie to the kings of Israel. +15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel. +16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 WOE to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. +2 And they covet fields, and take __them__ by violence; and houses, and take __them__ away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. +3 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time __is__ evil. +4 ¶ In that day shall __one__ take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, __and__ say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed __it__ from me! turning away he hath divided our fields. +5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 Prophesy ye not, __say__ __they__ __to__ __them__ __that__ prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, __that__ they shall not take shame. +7 ¶ O __thou__ __that__ __art__ named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ straitened? __are__ these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? +8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. +9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. +10 Arise ye, and depart; for this __is__ not __your__ rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy __you__, even with a sore destruction. +11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, __saying__, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people. +12 ¶ I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of __the__ __multitude__ __of__ men. +13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ on the head of them. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; __Is__ __it__ not for you to know judgment? +2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; +3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. +4 Then shall they cry unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings. +5 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him. +6 Therefore night __shall__ __be__ unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. +7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for __there__ __is__ no answer of God. +8 ¶ But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. +9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. +10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. +11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and say, __Is__ not the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ among us? none evil can come upon us. +12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed __as__ a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 BUT in the last days it shall come to pass, __that__ the mountain of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. +2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ from Jerusalem. +3 ¶ And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. +4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make __them__ afraid: for the mouth of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath spoken __it__. +5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God for ever and ever. +6 In that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; +7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. +8 ¶ And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem. +9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? __is__ __there__ no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. +10 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go __even__ to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. +11 ¶ Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. +12 But they know not the thoughts of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. +13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 NOW gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek. +2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, __though__ thou be little among the thousands of Judah, __yet__ out of thee shall he come forth unto me __that__ __is__ to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth __have__ __been__ from of old, from everlasting. +3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time __that__ she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. +4 ¶ And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, in the majesty of the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. +5 And this __man__ shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. +6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver __us__ from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. +7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. +8 ¶ And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. +9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. +10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: +11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: +12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no __more__ soothsayers: +13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. +14 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. +15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 HEAR ye now what the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. +2 Hear ye, O mountains, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel. +3 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. +4 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. +5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +6 ¶ Wherewith shall I come before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __and__ bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? +7 Will the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ be pleased with thousands of rams, __or__ with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn __for__ my transgression, the fruit of my body __for__ the sin of my soul? +8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what __is__ good; and what doth the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? +9 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s voice crieth unto the city, and __the__ __man__ __of__ wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it. +10 ¶ Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure __that__ __is__ abominable? +11 Shall I count __them__ pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? +12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue __is__ deceitful in their mouth. +13 Therefore also will I make __thee__ sick in smiting thee, in making __thee__ desolate because of thy sins. +14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down __shall__ __be__ in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and __that__ which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword. +15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine. +16 ¶ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 WOE is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: __there__ __is__ no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. +2 The good __man__ is perished out of the earth: and __there__ __is__ none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net. +3 ¶ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge __asketh__ for a reward; and the great __man__, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. +4 The best of them __is__ as a brier: the most upright __is__ __sharper__ than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen __and__ thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. +5 ¶ Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. +6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies __are__ the men of his own house. +7 Therefore I will look unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. +8 ¶ Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __shall__ __be__ a light unto me. +9 I will bear the indignation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, __and__ I shall behold his righteousness. +10 Then __she__ __that__ __is__ mine enemy shall see __it__, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets. +11 __In__ the day that thy walls are to be built, __in__ that day shall the decree be far removed. +12 __In__ that day __also__ he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and __from__ the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and __from__ mountain to mountain. +13 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. +14 ¶ Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily __in__ the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed __in__ Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. +15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous __things__. +16 ¶ The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay __their__ hand upon __their__ mouth, their ears shall be deaf. +17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ our God, and shall fear because of thee. +18 Who __is__ a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth __in__ mercy. +19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. +20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, __and__ the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. +:::SET BOOK Nahum +:::SET TITLE Nahum +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. +2 God __is__ jealous, and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ revengeth; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ revengeth, and __is__ furious; the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth __wrath__ for his enemies. +3 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit __the__ __wicked:__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __hath__ his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds __are__ the dust of his feet. +4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. +5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. +6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. +8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. +9 What do ye imagine against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. +10 For while __they__ __be__ folden together __as__ thorns, and while they are drunken __as__ drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. +11 There is __one__ come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, a wicked counseller. +12 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; Though __they__ __be__ quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. +13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. +14 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath given a commandment concerning thee, __that__ no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile. +15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 HE that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make __thy__ loins strong, fortify __thy__ power mightily. +2 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. +3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men __are__ in scarlet: the chariots __shall__ __be__ with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. +4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. +5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. +6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. +7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead __her__ as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. +8 But Nineveh __is__ of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, __shall__ __they__ __cry;__ but none shall look back. +9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for __there__ __is__ none end of the store __and__ glory out of all the pleasant furniture. +10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain __is__ in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. +11 Where __is__ the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, __even__ the old lion, walked, __and__ the lion's whelp, and none made __them__ afraid? +12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. +13 Behold, I __am__ against thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 WOE to the bloody city! it __is__ all full of lies __and__ robbery; the prey departeth not; +2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. +3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and __there__ __is__ a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and __there__ __is__ none end of __their__ corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: +4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. +5 Behold, I __am__ against thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. +6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. +7 And it shall come to pass, __that__ all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee? +8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, __that__ __had__ the waters round about it, whose rampart __was__ the sea, __and__ her wall __was__ from the sea? +9 Ethiopia and Egypt __were__ her strength, and __it__ __was__ infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. +10 Yet __was__ she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. +11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. +12 All thy strong holds __shall__ __be__ __like__ fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. +13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee __are__ women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. +14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. +15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. +16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. +17 Thy crowned __are__ as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, __but__ when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they __are__. +18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell __in__ __the__ __dust:__ thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth __them__. +19 __There__ __is__ no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? +:::SET BOOK Habakkuk +:::SET TITLE Habakkuk +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. +2 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! __even__ cry out unto thee __of__ violence, and thou wilt not save! +3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause __me__ to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence __are__ before me: and there are __that__ raise up strife and contention. +4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. +5 ¶ Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for __I__ will work a work in your days, __which__ ye will not believe, though it be told __you__. +6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, __that__ bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces __that__ __are__ not theirs. +7 They __are__ terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. +8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle __that__ hasteth to eat. +9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up __as__ the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. +10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. +11 Then shall __his__ mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, __imputing__ this his power unto his god. +12 ¶ __Art__ thou not from everlasting, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. +13 __Thou__ __art__ of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, __and__ holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth __the__ __man__ __that__ __is__ more righteous than he? +14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, __that__ __have__ no ruler over them? +15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. +16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion __is__ fat, and their meat plenteous. +17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 I WILL stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make __it__ plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. +3 For the vision __is__ yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. +4 Behold, his soul __which__ is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. +5 ¶ Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, __he__ __is__ a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and __is__ as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: +6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth __that__ __which__ __is__ not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! +7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? +8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and __for__ the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. +9 ¶ Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! +10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned __against__ thy soul. +11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. +12 ¶ Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! +13 Behold, __is__ __it__ not of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? +14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as the waters cover the sea. +15 ¶ Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to __him__, and makest __him__ drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! +16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing __shall__ __be__ on thy glory. +17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, __which__ made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. +18 ¶ What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? +19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it __is__ laid over with gold and silver, and __there__ __is__ no breath at all in the midst of it. +20 But the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 A PRAYER of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. +2 O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I have heard thy speech, __and__ was afraid: O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. +3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. +4 And __his__ brightness was as the light; he had horns __coming__ out of his hand: and there __was__ the hiding of his power. +5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. +6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways __are__ everlasting. +7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: __and__ the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. +8 Was the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ displeased against the rivers? __was__ thine anger against the rivers? __was__ thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses __and__ thy chariots of salvation? +9 Thy bow was made quite naked, __according__ to the oaths of the tribes, __even__ __thy__ word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. +10 The mountains saw thee, __and__ they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, __and__ lifted up his hands on high. +11 The sun __and__ moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, __and__ at the shining of thy glittering spear. +12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. +13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, __even__ for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. +14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing __was__ as to devour the poor secretly. +15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, __through__ the heap of great waters. +16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. +17 ¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither __shall__ fruit __be__ in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and __there__ __shall__ __be__ no herd in the stalls: +18 Yet I will rejoice in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I will joy in the God of my salvation. +19 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ God __is__ my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' __feet__, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments. +:::SET BOOK Zephaniah +:::SET TITLE Zephaniah +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. +2 I will utterly consume all __things__ from off the land, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +4 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, __and__ the name of the Chemarims with the priests; +5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship __and__ that swear by the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and that swear by Malcham; +6 And them that are turned back from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and __those__ that have not sought the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, nor inquired for him. +7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$: for the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ at hand: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. +8 And it shall come to pass in the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel. +9 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit. +10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __that__ __there__ __shall__ __be__ the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills. +11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off. +12 And it shall come to pass at that time, __that__ I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will not do good, neither will he do evil. +13 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit __them;__ and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof. +14 The great day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ near, __it__ __is__ near, and hasteth greatly, __even__ the voice of the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. +15 That day __is__ a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, +16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. +17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. +18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 GATHER yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; +2 Before the decree bring forth, __before__ the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ come upon you, before the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anger come upon you. +3 Seek ye the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s anger. +4 ¶ For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. +5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant. +6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings __and__ cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. +7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity. +8 ¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified __themselves__ against their border. +9 Therefore __as__ I live, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, __even__ the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. +10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified __themselves__ against the people of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +11 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __will__ __be__ terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and __men__ shall worship him, every one from his place, __even__ all the isles of the heathen. +12 ¶ Ye Ethiopians also, ye __shall__ __be__ slain by my sword. +13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, __and__ dry like a wilderness. +14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; __their__ voice shall sing in the windows; desolation __shall__ __be__ in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. +15 This __is__ the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I __am__, and __there__ __is__ none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, __and__ wag his hand. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 WOE to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! +2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; she drew not near to her God. +3 Her princes within her __are__ roaring lions; her judges __are__ evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. +4 Her prophets __are__ light __and__ treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. +5 The just $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. +6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. +7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, __and__ corrupted all their doings. +8 ¶ Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination __is__ to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, __even__ all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. +9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, to serve him with one consent. +10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, __even__ the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering. +11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. +12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make __them__ afraid. +14 ¶ Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. +15 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, __even__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, __is__ in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. +16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: __and__ __to__ Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. +17 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ thy God in the midst of thee __is__ mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. +18 I will gather __them__ __that__ __are__ sorrowful for the solemn assembly, __who__ are of thee, __to__ __whom__ the reproach of it __was__ a burden. +19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. +20 At that time will I bring you __again__, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET BOOK Haggai +:::SET TITLE Haggai +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 IN the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, +2 Thus speaketh the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house should be built. +3 Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by Haggai the prophet, saying, +4 __Is__ __it__ time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house __lie__ waste? +5 Now therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Consider your ways. +6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages __to__ __put__ __it__ into a bag with holes. +7 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Consider your ways. +8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, __it__ __came__ to little; and when ye brought __it__ home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. Because of mine house that __is__ waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. +10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed __from__ her fruit. +11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon __that__ which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. +12 ¶ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +13 Then spake Haggai the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s messenger in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s message unto the people, saying, I __am__ with you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, their God, +15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 IN the seventh __month__, in the one and twentieth __day__ of the month, came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by the prophet Haggai, saying, +2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, +3 Who __is__ left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? __is__ __it__ not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? +4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and work: for I __am__ with you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: +5 __According__ __to__ the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not. +6 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Yet once, it __is__ a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry __land;__ +7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +8 The silver __is__ mine, and the gold __is__ mine, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +10 ¶ In the four and twentieth __day__ of the ninth __month__, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ by Haggai the prophet, saying, +11 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Ask now the priests __concerning__ the law, saying, +12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. +13 Then said Haggai, If __one__ __that__ __is__ unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean. +14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So __is__ this people, and so __is__ this nation before me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and so __is__ every work of their hands; and that which they offer there __is__ unclean. +15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +16 Since those __days__ were, when __one__ came to an heap of twenty __measures__, there were __but__ ten: when __one__ came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty __vessels__ out of the press, there were __but__ twenty. +17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye __turned__ not to me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth __month__, __even__ from the day that the foundation of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s temple was laid, consider __it__. +19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless __you__. +20 ¶ And again the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth __day__ of the month, saying, +21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; +22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. +23 In that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +:::SET BOOK Zechariah +:::SET TITLE Zechariah +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 IN the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, +2 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath been sore displeased with your fathers. +3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and __from__ your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +5 Your fathers, where __are__ they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? +6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us. +7 ¶ Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which __is__ the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, +8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that __were__ in the bottom; and behind him __were__ __there__ red horses, speckled, and white. +9 Then said I, O my lord, what __are__ these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these __be__. +10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These __are__ __they__ whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. +11 And they answered the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. +12 ¶ Then the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered and said, O $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ answered the angel that talked with me __with__ good words __and__ comfortable words. +14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. +15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen __that__ __are__ at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. +16 Therefore thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem. +17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. +18 ¶ Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. +19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What __be__ these? And he answered me, These __are__ the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. +20 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shewed me four carpenters. +21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These __are__ the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up __their__ horn over the land of Judah to scatter it. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 I LIFTED up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. +2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what __is__ the breadth thereof, and what __is__ the length thereof. +3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, +4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited __as__ towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: +5 For I, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. +6 ¶ Ho, ho, __come__ __forth__, and flee from the land of the north, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest __with__ the daughter of Babylon. +8 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. +9 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath sent me. +10 ¶ Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +11 And many nations shall be joined to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath sent me unto thee. +12 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. +13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. +2 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto Satan, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rebuke thee, O Satan; even the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: __is__ not this a brand plucked out of the fire? +3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. +4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. +5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ stood by. +6 And the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ protested unto Joshua, saying, +7 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. +8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they __are__ men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. +9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone __shall__ __be__ seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. +10 In that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, +2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all __of__ gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which __are__ upon the top thereof: +3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right __side__ of the bowl, and the other upon the left __side__ thereof. +4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What __are__ these, my lord? +5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. +6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This __is__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +7 Who __art__ thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel __thou__ __shalt__ __become__ a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone __thereof__ __with__ shoutings, __crying__, Grace, grace unto it. +8 Moreover the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath sent me unto you. +10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel __with__ those seven; they __are__ the eyes of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which run to and fro through the whole earth. +11 ¶ Then answered I, and said unto him, What __are__ these two olive trees upon the right __side__ of the candlestick and upon the left __side__ thereof? +12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What __be__ __these__ two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden __oil__ out of themselves? +13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these __be?__ And I said, No, my lord. +14 Then said he, These __are__ the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 THEN I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. +2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof __is__ twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. +3 Then said he unto me, This __is__ the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off __as__ on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off __as__ on that side according to it. +4 I will bring it forth, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. +5 ¶ Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what __is__ this that goeth forth. +6 And I said, What __is__ it? And he said, This __is__ an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This __is__ their resemblance through all the earth. +7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this __is__ a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. +8 And he said, This __is__ wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. +9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind __was__ in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. +10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? +11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains __were__ mountains of brass. +2 In the first chariot __were__ red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; +3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses. +4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What __are__ these, my lord? +5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These __are__ the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. +6 The black horses which __are__ therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country. +7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth. +8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country. +9 ¶ And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto me, saying, +10 Take of __them__ __of__ the captivity, __even__ of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; +11 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set __them__ upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest; +12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name __is__ The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +13 Even he shall build the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. +14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +15 And they __that__ __are__ far off shall come and build in the temple of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and ye shall know that the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath sent me unto you. And __this__ shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ your God. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 AND it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, __that__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Zechariah in the fourth __day__ of the ninth month, __even__ in Chisleu; +2 When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, +3 __And__ to speak unto the priests which __were__ in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? +4 ¶ Then came the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts unto me, saying, +5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh __month__, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, __even__ to me? +6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat __for__ __yourselves__, and drink __for__ __yourselves?__ +7 __Should__ __ye__ not __hear__ the words which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when __men__ inhabited the south and the plain? +8 ¶ And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ came unto Zechariah, saying, +9 Thus speaketh the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: +10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. +11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. +12 Yea, they made their hearts __as__ an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +13 Therefore it is come to pass, __that__ as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: +14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AGAIN the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts came __to__ __me__, saying, +2 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. +3 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts the holy mountain. +4 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. +5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. +6 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +7 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; +8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. +9 ¶ Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which __were__ in the day __that__ the foundation of the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built. +10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither __was__ __there__ __any__ peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour. +11 But now I __will__ not __be__ unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +12 For the seed __shall__ __be__ prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these __things__. +13 And it shall come to pass, __that__ as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, __but__ let your hands be strong. +14 For thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and I repented not: +15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not. +16 ¶ These __are__ the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: +17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these __are__ __things__ that I hate, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +18 ¶ And the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts came unto me, saying, +19 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; The fast of the fourth __month__, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. +20 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; __It__ __shall__ yet __come__ __to__ __pass__, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: +21 And the inhabitants of one __city__ shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: I will go also. +22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +23 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; In those days __it__ __shall__ __come__ __to__ __pass__, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard __that__ God __is__ with you. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 THE burden of the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus __shall__ __be__ the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, __shall__ __be__ toward the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. +3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. +4 Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. +5 Ashkelon shall see __it__, and fear; Gaza also __shall__ __see__ __it__, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. +6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. +7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, __shall__ __be__ for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. +8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes. +9 ¶ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he __is__ just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. +10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion __shall__ __be__ from sea __even__ to sea, and from the river __even__ to the ends of the earth. +11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein __is__ no water. +12 ¶ Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare __that__ I will render double unto thee; +13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. +14 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord $$G{\footnotesize OD}$$ shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. +15 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, __and__ make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, __and__ as the corners of the altar. +16 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for __they__ __shall__ __be__ __as__ the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. +17 For how great __is__ his goodness, and how great __is__ his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 ASK ye of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ rain in the time of the latter rain; __so__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. +2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because __there__ __was__ no shepherd. +3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle. +4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together. +5 ¶ And they shall be as mighty __men__, which tread down __their__ __enemies__ in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded. +6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ their God, and will hear them. +7 And __they__ __of__ Ephraim shall be like a mighty __man__, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see __it__, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. +9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. +10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and __place__ shall not be found for them. +11 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. +12 And I will strengthen them in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 OPEN thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. +2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. +3 ¶ __There__ __is__ a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. +4 Thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; +5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed __be__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. +6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver __them__. +7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, __even__ you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. +8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. +9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. +10 ¶ And I took my staff, __even__ Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. +11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it __was__ the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give __me__ my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty __pieces__ of silver. +13 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty __pieces__ of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, __even__ Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. +15 ¶ And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. +16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, __which__ shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. +17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword __shall__ __be__ upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 THE burden of the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ for Israel, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. +2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah __and__ against Jerusalem. +3 ¶ And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. +4 In that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. +5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem __shall__ __be__ my strength in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts their God. +6 ¶ In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, __even__ in Jerusalem. +7 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify __themselves__ against Judah. +8 In that day shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David __shall__ __be__ as God, as the angel of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ before them. +9 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. +10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for __his__ only __son__, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for __his__ firstborn. +11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. +12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; +13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; +14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 IN that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. +2 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, __that__ I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. +3 And it shall come to pass, __that__ when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. +4 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: +5 But he shall say, I __am__ no prophet, I __am__ an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth. +6 And __one__ shall say unto him, What __are__ these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, __Those__ with which I was wounded __in__ the house of my friends. +7 ¶ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man __that__ __is__ my fellow, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. +8 And it shall come to pass, __that__ in all the land, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, two parts therein shall be cut off __and__ die; but the third shall be left therein. +9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It __is__ my people: and they shall say, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ my God. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 BEHOLD, the day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. +2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. +3 Then shall the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. +4 ¶ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which __is__ before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, __and__ __there__ __shall__ __be__ a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. +5 And ye shall flee __to__ the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ my God shall come, __and__ all the saints with thee. +6 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ the light shall not be clear, __nor__ dark: +7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, __that__ at evening time it shall be light. +8 And it shall be in that day, __that__ living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. +9 And the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and his name one. +10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and __from__ the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. +11 And __men__ shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. +12 ¶ And this shall be the plague wherewith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. +13 And it shall come to pass in that day, __that__ a great tumult from the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. +14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. +15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. +16 ¶ And it shall come to pass, __that__ every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. +17 And it shall be, __that__ whoso will not come up of __all__ the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. +18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that __have__ no __rain;__ there shall be the plague, wherewith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. +19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. +20 ¶ In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$'s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. +21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +:::SET BOOK Malachi +:::SET TITLE Malachi +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE burden of the word of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ to Israel by Malachi. +2 I have loved you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? __Was__ not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: yet I loved Jacob, +3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. +4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath indignation for ever. +5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will be magnified from the border of Israel. +6 ¶ A son honoureth __his__ father, and a servant his master: if then I __be__ a father, where __is__ mine honour? and if I __be__ a master, where __is__ my fear? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? +7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ contemptible. +8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, __is__ __it__ not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, __is__ __it__ not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +10 Who __is__ __there__ even among you that would shut the doors __for__ __nought?__ neither do ye kindle __fire__ on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. +11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name __shall__ __be__ great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense __shall__ __be__ offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name __shall__ __be__ great among the heathen, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +12 ¶ But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ __is__ polluted; and the fruit thereof, __even__ his meat, __is__ contemptible. +13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness __is__ __it!__ and ye have snuffed at it, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts; and ye brought __that__ __which__ __was__ torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. +14 But cursed __be__ the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I __am__ a great King, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, and my name __is__ dreadful among the heathen. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND now, O ye priests, this commandment __is__ for you. +2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay __it__ to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay __it__ to heart. +3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, __even__ the dung of your solemn feasts; and __one__ shall take you away with it. +4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him __for__ the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. +6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. +7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he __is__ the messenger of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. +10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? +11 ¶ Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. +12 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth __it__ with good will at your hand. +14 ¶ Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet __is__ she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. +15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. +16 For the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for __one__ covereth violence with his garment, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. +17 ¶ Ye have wearied the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied __him?__ When ye say, Every one that doeth evil __is__ good in the sight of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and he delighteth in them; or, Where __is__ the God of judgment? +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he __is__ like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: +3 And he shall sit __as__ a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ an offering in righteousness. +4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, as in the days of old, and as in former years. +5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in __his__ wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger __from__ __his__ __right__, and fear not me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +6 For I __am__ the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. +7 ¶ Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept __them__. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? +8 ¶ Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. +9 Ye __are__ cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, __even__ this whole nation. +10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that __there__ __shall__ not __be__ __room__ enough __to__ __receive__ __it__. +11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +13 ¶ Your words have been stout against me, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$. Yet ye say, What have we spoken __so__ __much__ against thee? +14 Ye have said, It __is__ vain to serve God: and what profit __is__ __it__ that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts? +15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, __they__ __that__ tempt God are even delivered. +16 ¶ Then they that feared the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ spake often one to another: and the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ hearkened, and heard __it__, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$, and that thought upon his name. +17 And they shall be mine, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. +18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 FOR, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. +2 ¶ But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. +3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do __this__, saith the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ of hosts. +4 ¶ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, __with__ the statutes and judgments. +5 ¶ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$: +6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. +> **THE END OF THE PROPHETS.** +:::SET TESTAMENT New +:::SET BOOK Matthew +:::SET TITLE The Gospel According to St. Matthew +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. +2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; +3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; +4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; +5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; +6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her __that__ __had__ __been__ __the__ __wife__ of Urias; +7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; +8 And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; +9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; +10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; +11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon: +12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel; +13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor; +14 And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; +15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; +16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. +17 So all the generations from Abraham to David __are__ fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon __are__ fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ __are__ fourteen generations. +18 ¶ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. +19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just __man__, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily. +20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. +21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. +22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, +23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. +24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: +25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 NOW when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, +2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. +3 When Herod the king had heard __these__ __things__, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. +4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. +5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judæa: for thus it is written by the prophet, +6 And thou Bethlehem, __in__ the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel. +7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. +8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found __him__, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. +9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. +10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. +11 ¶ And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. +12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. +13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. +14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: +15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. +16 ¶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. +17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, +18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping __for__ her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. +19 ¶ But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, +20 Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. +21 And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. +22 But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judæa in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: +23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 IN those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa, +2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. +3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. +4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. +5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judæa, and all the region round about Jordan, +6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. +7 ¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? +8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: +9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to __our__ father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. +10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. +11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and __with__ fire: +12 Whose fan __is__ in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. +13 ¶ Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. +14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? +15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer __it__ __to__ __be__ __so__ now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. +16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: +17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 THEN was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. +2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. +3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. +4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. +5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, +6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in __their__ hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. +7 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. +8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; +9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. +10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. +11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him. +12 ¶ Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; +13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: +14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, +15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, __by__ the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; +16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. +17 ¶ From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. +18 ¶ And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. +19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. +20 And they straightway left __their__ nets, and followed him. +21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James __the__ __son__ of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. +22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him. +23 ¶ And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. +24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them. +25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and __from__ Decapolis, and __from__ Jerusalem, and __from__ Judæa, and __from__ beyond Jordan. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: +2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, +3 Blessed __are__ the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. +4 Blessed __are__ they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. +5 Blessed __are__ the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. +6 Blessed __are__ they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. +7 Blessed __are__ the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. +8 Blessed __are__ the pure in heart: for they shall see God. +9 Blessed __are__ the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. +10 Blessed __are__ they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. +11 Blessed are ye, when __men__ shall revile you, and persecute __you__, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. +12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great __is__ your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. +13 ¶ Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. +14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. +15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. +16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. +17 ¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. +18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. +19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach __them__, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. +20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed __the__ __righteousness__ of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. +21 ¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: +22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. +23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; +24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. +25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. +26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. +27 ¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: +28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. +29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast __it__ from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not __that__ thy whole body should be cast into hell. +30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast __it__ from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not __that__ thy whole body should be cast into hell. +31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: +32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery. +33 ¶ Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: +34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: +35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. +36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. +37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. +38 ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: +39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. +40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have __thy__ cloke also. +41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. +42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away. +43 ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. +44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; +45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. +46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? +47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more __than__ __others?__ do not even the publicans so? +48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 TAKE heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. +2 Therefore when thou doest __thine__ alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. +3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: +4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. +5 ¶ And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites __are:__ for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. +6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. +7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen __do:__ for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. +8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. +9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. +10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as __it__ __is__ in heaven. +11 Give us this day our daily bread. +12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. +13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. +14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: +15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. +16 ¶ Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. +17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; +18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. +19 ¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: +20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: +21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. +22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. +23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great __is__ that darkness! +24 ¶ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. +25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? +26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? +27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? +28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: +29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. +30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, __shall__ __he__ not much more __clothe__ you, O ye of little faith? +31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? +32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. +33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. +34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day __is__ the evil thereof. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 JUDGE not, that ye be not judged. +2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. +3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? +4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam __is__ in thine own eye? +5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. +6 ¶ Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. +7 ¶ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: +8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. +9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? +10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? +11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? +12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. +13 ¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide __is__ the gate, and broad __is__ the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: +14 Because strait __is__ the gate, and narrow __is__ the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. +15 ¶ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. +16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? +17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. +18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither __can__ a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. +19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. +20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. +21 ¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. +22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? +23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. +24 ¶ Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: +25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. +26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: +27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. +28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: +29 For he taught them as __one__ having authority, and not as the scribes. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 WHEN he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. +2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. +3 And Jesus put forth __his__ hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. +4 And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. +5 ¶ And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, +6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. +7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. +8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. +9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this __man__, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth __it__. +10 When Jesus heard __it__, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. +11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. +12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. +13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, __so__ be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. +14 ¶ And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever. +15 And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them. +16 ¶ When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with __his__ word, and healed all that were sick: +17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare __our__ sicknesses. +18 ¶ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. +19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. +20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air __have__ nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay __his__ head. +21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. +22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. +23 ¶ And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. +24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. +25 And his disciples came to __him__, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. +26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. +27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him! +28 ¶ And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. +29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? +30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. +31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. +32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters. +33 And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils. +34 And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought __him__ that he would depart out of their coasts. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. +2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. +3 And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This __man__ blasphemeth. +4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? +5 For whether is easier, to say, __Thy__ sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? +6 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. +7 And he arose, and departed to his house. +8 But when the multitudes saw __it__, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men. +9 ¶ And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. +10 ¶ And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. +11 And when the Pharisees saw __it__, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? +12 But when Jesus heard __that__, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. +13 But go ye and learn what __that__ meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. +14 ¶ Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? +15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. +16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. +17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. +18 ¶ While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. +19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and __so__ __did__ his disciples. +20 ¶ And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind __him__, and touched the hem of his garment: +21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. +22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. +23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise, +24 He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. +25 But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose. +26 And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land. +27 ¶ And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, __Thou__ Son of David, have mercy on us. +28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. +29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. +30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See __that__ no man know __it__. +31 But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country. +32 ¶ As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil. +33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel. +34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils. +35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. +36 ¶ But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. +37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly __is__ plenteous, but the labourers __are__ few; +38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND when he had called unto __him__ his twelve disciples, he gave them power __against__ unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. +2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James __the__ __son__ of Zebedee, and John his brother; +3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James __the__ __son__ of Alphæus, and Lebbæus, whose surname was Thaddæus; +4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. +5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into __any__ city of the Samaritans enter ye not: +6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. +7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. +8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. +9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, +10 Nor scrip for __your__ journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat. +11 And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. +12 And when ye come into an house, salute it. +13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. +14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. +15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. +16 ¶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. +17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; +18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. +19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. +20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. +21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against __their__ parents, and cause them to be put to death. +22 And ye shall be hated of all __men__ for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. +23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come. +24 The disciple is not above __his__ master, nor the servant above his lord. +25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more __shall__ __they__ __call__ them of his household? +26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. +27 What I tell you in darkness, __that__ speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, __that__ preach ye upon the housetops. +28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. +29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. +30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. +31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. +32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. +33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. +34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. +35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. +36 And a man's foes __shall__ __be__ they of his own household. +37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. +38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. +39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. +40 ¶ He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. +41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. +42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold __water__ only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. +2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, +3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? +4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: +5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. +6 And blessed is __he__, whosoever shall not be offended in me. +7 ¶ And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? +8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft __clothing__ are in kings' houses. +9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. +10 For this is __he__, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. +11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. +12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. +13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. +14 And if ye will receive __it__, this is Elias, which was for to come. +15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. +16 ¶ But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, +17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. +18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. +19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children. +20 ¶ Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: +21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. +22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. +23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. +24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee. +25 ¶ At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. +26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. +27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and __he__ to whomsoever the Son will reveal __him__. +28 ¶ Come unto me, all __ye__ that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. +29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. +30 For my yoke __is__ easy, and my burden is light. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AT that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. +2 But when the Pharisees saw __it__, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. +3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; +4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? +5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? +6 But I say unto you, That in this place is __one__ greater than the temple. +7 But if ye had known what __this__ meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. +8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. +9 And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue: +10 ¶ And, behold, there was a man which had __his__ hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. +11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift __it__ out? +12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. +13 Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched __it__ forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other. +14 ¶ Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. +15 But when Jesus knew __it__, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all; +16 And charged them that they should not make him known: +17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, +18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. +19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. +20 A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. +21 And in his name shall the Gentiles trust. +22 ¶ Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. +23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? +24 But when the Pharisees heard __it__, they said, This __fellow__ doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. +25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: +26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? +27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast __them__ out? therefore they shall be your judges. +28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. +29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. +30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. +31 ¶ Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy __against__ the __Holy__ Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. +32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the __world__ to come. +33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by __his__ fruit. +34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. +35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. +36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. +37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. +38 ¶ Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. +39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: +40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. +41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas __is__ here. +42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon __is__ here. +43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. +44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth __it__ empty, swept, and garnished. +45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last __state__ of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. +46 ¶ While he yet talked to the people, behold, __his__ mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. +47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. +48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? +49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! +50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 THE same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. +2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. +3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; +4 And when he sowed, some __seeds__ fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: +5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: +6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. +7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: +8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. +9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. +10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? +11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. +12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. +13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. +14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: +15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and __their__ ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with __their__ eyes, and hear with __their__ ears, and should understand with __their__ heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. +16 But blessed __are__ your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. +17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous __men__ have desired to see __those__ __things__ which ye see, and have not seen __them;__ and to hear __those__ __things__ which ye hear, and have not heard __them__. +18 ¶ Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. +19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth __it__ not, then cometh the wicked __one__, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. +20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; +21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. +22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. +23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth __it;__ which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. +24 ¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: +25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. +26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. +27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? +28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? +29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. +30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. +31 ¶ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: +32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. +33 ¶ Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. +34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: +35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. +36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. +37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; +38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked __one;__ +39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. +40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. +41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; +42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. +43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. +44 ¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. +45 ¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: +46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. +47 ¶ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: +48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. +49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, +50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. +51 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. +52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe __which__ __is__ instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man __that__ __is__ an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure __things__ new and old. +53 ¶ And it came to pass, __that__ when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. +54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this __man__ this wisdom, and __these__ mighty works? +55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? +56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this __man__ all these things? +57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. +58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AT that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, +2 And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him. +3 ¶ For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put __him__ in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. +4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. +5 And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. +6 But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. +7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. +8 And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. +9 And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded __it__ to be given __her__. +10 And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. +11 And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought __it__ to her mother. +12 And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus. +13 ¶ When Jesus heard __of__ __it__, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard __thereof__, they followed him on foot out of the cities. +14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. +15 ¶ And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals. +16 But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat. +17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. +18 He said, Bring them hither to me. +19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to __his__ disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. +20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. +21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. +22 ¶ And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. +23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. +24 But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. +25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. +26 And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. +27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid. +28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. +29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus. +30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. +31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth __his__ hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? +32 And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased. +33 Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God. +34 ¶ And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret. +35 And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; +36 And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 THEN came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, +2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. +3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? +4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. +5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to __his__ father or __his__ mother, __It__ __is__ a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; +6 And honour not his father or his mother, __he__ __shall__ __be__ __free__. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. +7 __Ye__ hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, +8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with __their__ lips; but their heart is far from me. +9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching __for__ doctrines the commandments of men. +10 ¶ And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: +11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. +12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? +13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. +14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. +15 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. +16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? +17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? +18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. +19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: +20 These are __the__ __things__ which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man. +21 ¶ Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. +22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, __thou__ Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. +23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. +24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. +25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. +26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast __it__ to dogs. +27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. +28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great __is__ thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. +29 And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. +30 And great multitudes came unto him, having with them __those__ __that__ __were__ lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: +31 Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel. +32 ¶ Then Jesus called his disciples __unto__ __him__, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way. +33 And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? +34 And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. +35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. +36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake __them__, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. +37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken __meat__ that was left seven baskets full. +38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children. +39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 THE Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. +2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, __It__ __will__ __be__ fair weather: for the sky is red. +3 And in the morning, __It__ __will__ __be__ foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O __ye__ hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not __discern__ the signs of the times? +4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. +5 And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. +6 ¶ Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. +7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, __It__ __is__ because we have taken no bread. +8 __Which__ when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? +9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? +10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? +11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake __it__ not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? +12 Then understood they how that he bade __them__ not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. +13 ¶ When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? +14 And they said, Some __say__ __that__ __thou__ __art__ John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. +15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? +16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. +17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed __it__ unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. +18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. +19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. +20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. +21 ¶ From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. +22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. +23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. +24 ¶ Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any __man__ will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. +25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. +26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? +27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. +28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, +2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. +3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. +4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. +5 While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. +6 And when the disciples heard __it__, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. +7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. +8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only. +9 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead. +10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? +11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. +12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them. +13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. +14 ¶ And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a __certain__ man, kneeling down to him, and saying, +15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. +16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. +17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me. +18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. +19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? +20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. +21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. +22 ¶ And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: +23 And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry. +24 ¶ And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute __money__ came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? +25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? +26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. +27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AT the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? +2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, +3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. +4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. +5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. +6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and __that__ he were drowned in the depth of the sea. +7 ¶ Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! +8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast __them__ from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. +9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast __it__ from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. +10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. +11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. +12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? +13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that __sheep__, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. +14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. +15 ¶ Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. +16 But if he will not hear __thee__, __then__ take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. +17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell __it__ unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. +18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. +19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. +20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. +21 ¶ Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? +22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. +23 ¶ Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. +24 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. +25 But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. +26 The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. +27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. +28 But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took __him__ by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. +29 And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. +30 And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. +31 So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. +32 Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: +33 Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? +34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. +35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND it came to pass, __that__ when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judæa beyond Jordan; +2 And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. +3 ¶ The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? +4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made __them__ at the beginning made them male and female, +5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? +6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. +7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away? +8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. +9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except __it__ __be__ for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. +10 ¶ His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with __his__ wife, it is not good to marry. +11 But he said unto them, All __men__ cannot receive this saying, save __they__ to whom it is given. +12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from __their__ mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive __it__, let him receive __it__. +13 ¶ Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put __his__ hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. +14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. +15 And he laid __his__ hands on them, and departed thence. +16 ¶ And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? +17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? __there__ __is__ none good but one, __that__ __is__, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. +18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, +19 Honour thy father and __thy__ mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. +20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? +21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go __and__ sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come __and__ follow me. +22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. +23 ¶ Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. +24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. +25 When his disciples heard __it__, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? +26 But Jesus beheld __them__, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. +27 ¶ Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? +28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. +29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. +30 But many __that__ __are__ first shall be last; and the last __shall__ __be__ first. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 FOR the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man __that__ __is__ an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. +2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. +3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, +4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. +5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. +6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? +7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, __that__ shall ye receive. +8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them __their__ hire, beginning from the last unto the first. +9 And when they came that __were__ __hired__ about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. +10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. +11 And when they had received __it__, they murmured against the goodman of the house, +12 Saying, These last have wrought __but__ one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. +13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? +14 Take __that__ thine __is__, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. +15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? +16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. +17 ¶ And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, +18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, +19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify __him:__ and the third day he shall rise again. +20 ¶ Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping __him__, and desiring a certain thing of him. +21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. +22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. +23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but __it__ __shall__ __be__ __given__ __to__ __them__ for whom it is prepared of my Father. +24 And when the ten heard __it__, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. +25 But Jesus called them __unto__ __him__, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. +26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; +27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: +28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. +29 And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. +30 ¶ And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, __thou__ Son of David. +31 And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, __thou__ Son of David. +32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you? +33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. +34 So Jesus had compassion __on__ __them__, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, +2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose __them__, and bring __them__ unto me. +3 And if any __man__ say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. +4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, +5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. +6 And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them, +7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set __him__ thereon. +8 And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed __them__ in the way. +9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed __is__ he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest. +10 And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? +11 And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. +12 ¶ And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, +13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. +14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. +15 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased, +16 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? +17 ¶ And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there. +18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. +19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. +20 And when the disciples saw __it__, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! +21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this __which__ __is__ __done__ to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. +22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. +23 ¶ And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? +24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. +25 The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? +26 But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet. +27 And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. +28 ¶ But what think ye? A __certain__ man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. +29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. +30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I __go__, sir: and went not. +31 Whether of them twain did the will of __his__ father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. +32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen __it__, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him. +33 ¶ Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: +34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. +35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. +36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. +37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. +38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. +39 And they caught him, and cast __him__ out of the vineyard, and slew __him__. +40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? +41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out __his__ vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. +42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? +43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. +44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. +45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. +46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 AND Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, +2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, +3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. +4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and __my__ fatlings __are__ killed, and all things __are__ ready: come unto the marriage. +5 But they made light of __it__, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: +6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated __them__ spitefully, and slew __them__. +7 But when the king heard __thereof__, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city. +8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. +9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. +10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. +11 ¶ And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: +12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. +13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast __him__ into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. +14 For many are called, but few __are__ chosen. +15 ¶ Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in __his__ talk. +16 And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any __man:__ for thou regardest not the person of men. +17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not? +18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, __ye__ hypocrites? +19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. +20 And he saith unto them, Whose __is__ this image and superscription? +21 They say unto him, Cæsar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's; and unto God the things that are God's. +22 When they had heard __these__ __words__, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way. +23 ¶ The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, +24 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. +25 Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: +26 Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. +27 And last of all the woman died also. +28 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her. +29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. +30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. +31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, +32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. +33 And when the multitude heard __this__, they were astonished at his doctrine. +34 ¶ But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. +35 Then one of them, __which__ __was__ a lawyer, asked __him__ __a__ __question__, tempting him, and saying, +36 Master, which __is__ the great commandment in the law? +37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. +38 This is the first and great commandment. +39 And the second __is__ like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. +40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. +41 ¶ While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, +42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, __The__ __Son__ of David. +43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, +44 The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? +45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? +46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any __man__ from that day forth ask him any more __questions__. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 THEN spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, +2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: +3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, __that__ observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. +4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay __them__ on men's shoulders; but they __themselves__ will not move them with one of their fingers. +5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, +6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, +7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. +8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, __even__ Christ; and all ye are brethren. +9 And call no __man__ your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. +10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, __even__ Christ. +11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. +12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. +13 ¶ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in __yourselves__, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. +14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. +15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. +16 Woe unto you, __ye__ blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! +17 __Ye__ fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? +18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. +19 __Ye__ fools and blind: for whether __is__ greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? +20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. +21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. +22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. +23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier __matters__ of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. +24 __Ye__ blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. +25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. +26 __Thou__ blind Pharisee, cleanse first that __which__ __is__ within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. +27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead __men__'__s__ bones, and of all uncleanness. +28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. +29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, +30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. +31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. +32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. +33 __Ye__ serpents, __ye__ generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? +34 ¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and __some__ of them ye shall kill and crucify; and __some__ of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute __them__ from city to city: +35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. +36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. +37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, __thou__ that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under __her__ wings, and ye would not! +38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. +39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed __is__ he that cometh in the name of the Lord. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AND Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to __him__ for to shew him the buildings of the temple. +2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. +3 ¶ And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what __shall__ __be__ the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? +4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. +5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. +6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all __these__ __things__ must come to pass, but the end is not yet. +7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. +8 All these __are__ the beginning of sorrows. +9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. +10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. +11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. +12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. +13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. +14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. +15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) +16 Then let them which be in Judæa flee into the mountains: +17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: +18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. +19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! +20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: +21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. +22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. +23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here __is__ Christ, or there; believe __it__ not. +24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if __it__ __were__ possible, they shall deceive the very elect. +25 Behold, I have told you before. +26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, __he__ __is__ in the secret chambers; believe __it__ not. +27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. +28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. +29 ¶ Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: +30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. +31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. +32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer __is__ nigh: +33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, __even__ at the doors. +34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. +35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. +36 ¶ But of that day and hour knoweth no __man__, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. +37 But as the days of Noe __were__, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. +38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, +39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. +40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. +41 Two __women__ __shall__ __be__ grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. +42 ¶ Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. +43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. +44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. +45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? +46 Blessed __is__ that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. +47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. +48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; +49 And shall begin to smite __his__ fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; +50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for __him__, and in an hour that he is not aware of, +51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint __him__ his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 THEN shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. +2 And five of them were wise, and five __were__ foolish. +3 They that __were__ foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: +4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. +5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. +6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. +7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. +8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. +9 But the wise answered, saying, __Not__ __so;__ lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. +10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. +11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. +12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. +13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. +14 ¶ For __the__ __kingdom__ __of__ __heaven__ __is__ as a man travelling into a far country, __who__ called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. +15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. +16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made __them__ other five talents. +17 And likewise he that __had__ __received__ two, he also gained other two. +18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. +19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. +20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. +21 His lord said unto him, Well done, __thou__ good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. +22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. +23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. +24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: +25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, __there__ thou hast __that__ __is__ thine. +26 His lord answered and said unto him, __Thou__ wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: +27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and __then__ at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. +28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give __it__ unto him which hath ten talents. +29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. +30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. +31 ¶ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: +32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth __his__ sheep from the goats: +33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. +34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: +35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: +36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. +37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed __thee?__ or thirsty, and gave __thee__ drink? +38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took __thee__ in? or naked, and clothed __thee?__ +39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? +40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done __it__ unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done __it__ unto me. +41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: +42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: +43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. +44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? +45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did __it__ not to one of the least of these, ye did __it__ not to me. +46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 AND it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, +2 Ye know that after two days is __the__ __feast__ __of__ the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. +3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, +4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill __him__. +5 But they said, Not on the feast __day__, lest there be an uproar among the people. +6 ¶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, +7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat __at__ __meat__. +8 But when his disciples saw __it__, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose __is__ this waste? +9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. +10 When Jesus understood __it__, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. +11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. +12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did __it__ for my burial. +13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, __there__ shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. +14 ¶ Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, +15 And said __unto__ __them__, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. +16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him. +17 ¶ Now the first __day__ of the __feast__ __of__ unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover? +18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples. +19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover. +20 Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve. +21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. +22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? +23 And he answered and said, He that dippeth __his__ hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. +24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. +25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said. +26 ¶ And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed __it__, and brake __it__, and gave __it__ to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. +27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave __it__ to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; +28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. +29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. +30 And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. +31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. +32 But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. +33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all __men__ shall be offended because of thee, __yet__ will I never be offended. +34 Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. +35 Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples. +36 ¶ Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. +37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. +38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. +39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou __wilt__. +40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? +41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed __is__ willing, but the flesh __is__ weak. +42 He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. +43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy. +44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. +45 Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take __your__ rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. +46 Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me. +47 ¶ And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. +48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. +49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him. +50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. +51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out __his__ hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear. +52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. +53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? +54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? +55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. +56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled. +57 ¶ And they that had laid hold on Jesus led __him__ away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. +58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end. +59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; +60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, __yet__ found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, +61 And said, This __fellow__ said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. +62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what __is__ __it__ __which__ these witness against thee? +63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. +64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. +65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy. +66 What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death. +67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote __him__ with the palms of their hands, +68 Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? +69 ¶ Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee. +70 But he denied before __them__ all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. +71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another __maid__ saw him, and said unto them that were there, This __fellow__ was also with Jesus of Nazareth. +72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. +73 And after a while came unto __him__ they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art __one__ of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee. +74 Then began he to curse and to swear, __saying__, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. +75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 WHEN the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: +2 And when they had bound him, they led __him__ away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. +3 ¶ Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, +4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What __is__ __that__ to us? see thou __to__ __that__. +5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. +6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. +7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. +8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. +9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; +10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me. +11 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. +12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. +13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? +14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly. +15 Now at __that__ feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. +16 And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. +17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ? +18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him. +19 ¶ When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him. +20 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. +21 The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas. +22 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? __They__ all say unto him, Let him be crucified. +23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. +24 ¶ When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but __that__ rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed __his__ hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye __to__ __it__. +25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood __be__ on us, and on our children. +26 ¶ Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered __him__ to be crucified. +27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band __of__ __soldiers__. +28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. +29 ¶ And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put __it__ upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! +30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head. +31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify __him__. +32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. +33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, +34 ¶ They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted __thereof__, he would not drink. +35 And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. +36 And sitting down they watched him there; +37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. +38 Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left. +39 ¶ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, +40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest __it__ in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. +41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking __him__, with the scribes and elders, said, +42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. +43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God. +44 The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. +45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. +46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? +47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard __that__, said, This __man__ calleth for Elias. +48 And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled __it__ with vinegar, and put __it__ on a reed, and gave him to drink. +49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. +50 ¶ Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. +51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; +52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, +53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. +54 Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God. +55 And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him: +56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children. +57 When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: +58 He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered. +59 And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, +60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed. +61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. +62 ¶ Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate, +63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. +64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first. +65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make __it__ as sure as ye can. +66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 IN the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first __day__ of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. +2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. +3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: +4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead __men__. +5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. +6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. +7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. +8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word. +9 ¶ And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. +10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me. +11 ¶ Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done. +12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, +13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him __away__ while we slept. +14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. +15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day. +16 ¶ Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. +17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. +18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. +19 ¶ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: +20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, __even__ unto the end of the world. Amen. +:::SET BOOK Mark +:::SET TITLE The Gospel According to St. Mark +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; +2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. +3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. +4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. +5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judæa, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins. +6 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; +7 And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. +8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. +9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. +10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: +11 And there came a voice from heaven, __saying__, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. +12 And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. +13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him. +14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, +15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. +16 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. +17 And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. +18 And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. +19 And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the __son__ of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. +20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. +21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. +22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. +23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, +24 Saying, Let __us__ alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. +25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. +26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. +27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine __is__ this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him. +28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. +29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. +30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her. +31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. +32 And at even, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils. +33 And all the city was gathered together at the door. +34 And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him. +35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. +36 And Simon and they that were with him followed after him. +37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All __men__ seek for thee. +38 And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth. +39 And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils. +40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. +41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth __his__ hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. +42 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed. +43 And he straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away; +44 And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. +45 But he went out, and began to publish __it__ much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND again he entered into Capernaum, after __some__ days; and it was noised that he was in the house. +2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive __them__, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them. +3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. +4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken __it__ up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. +5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. +6 But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, +7 Why doth this __man__ thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only? +8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts? +9 Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, __Thy__ sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? +10 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) +11 I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house. +12 And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion. +13 And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them. +14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the __son__ of Alphæus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him. +15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him. +16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? +17 When Jesus heard __it__, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. +18 And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? +19 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. +20 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. +21 No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse. +22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. +23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. +24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful? +25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him? +26 How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him? +27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: +28 Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. +2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. +3 And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth. +4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace. +5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched __it__ out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. +6 And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. +7 But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judæa, +8 And from Jerusalem, and from Idumæa, and __from__ beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him. +9 And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him. +10 For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues. +11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God. +12 And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known. +13 And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth __unto__ __him__ whom he would: and they came unto him. +14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, +15 And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: +16 And Simon he surnamed Peter; +17 And James the __son__ of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: +18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the __son__ of Alphæus, and Thaddæus, and Simon the Canaanite, +19 And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house. +20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. +21 And when his friends heard __of__ __it__, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself. +22 ¶ And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils. +23 And he called them __unto__ __him__, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? +24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. +25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. +26 And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. +27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house. +28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: +29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: +30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit. +31 ¶ There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him. +32 And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee. +33 And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren? +34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! +35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land. +2 And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, +3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: +4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. +5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: +6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. +7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. +8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred. +9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. +10 And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. +11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all __these__ things are done in parables: +12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and __their__ sins should be forgiven them. +13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? +14 ¶ The sower soweth the word. +15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. +16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; +17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. +18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, +19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. +20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive __it__, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. +21 ¶ And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? +22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. +23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. +24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. +25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. +26 ¶ And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; +27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. +28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. +29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. +30 ¶ And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? +31 __It__ __is__ like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: +32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it. +33 And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear __it__. +34 But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples. +35 And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. +36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. +37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. +38 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? +39 And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. +40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? +41 And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him? +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. +2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, +3 Who had __his__ dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: +4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any __man__ tame him. +5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. +6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, +7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, __thou__ Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. +8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, __thou__ unclean spirit. +9 And he asked him, What __is__ thy name? And he answered, saying, My name __is__ Legion: for we are many. +10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. +11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. +12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. +13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. +14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told __it__ in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. +15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. +16 And they that saw __it__ told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and __also__ concerning the swine. +17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. +18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. +19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. +20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all __men__ did marvel. +21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea. +22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, +23 And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: __I__ __pray__ __thee__, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live. +24 And __Jesus__ went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. +25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, +26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, +27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. +28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. +29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in __her__ body that she was healed of that plague. +30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? +31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? +32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. +33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. +34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. +35 While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's __house__ __certain__ which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further? +36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. +37 And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James. +38 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. +39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. +40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. +41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. +42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was __of__ __the__ __age__ of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. +43 And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him. +2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing __him__ were astonished, saying, From whence hath this __man__ these things? and what wisdom __is__ this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands? +3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. +4 But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. +5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed __them__. +6 And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching. +7 ¶ And he called __unto__ __him__ the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; +8 And commanded them that they should take nothing for __their__ journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in __their__ purse: +9 But __be__ shod with sandals; and not put on two coats. +10 And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place. +11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. +12 And they went out, and preached that men should repent. +13 And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed __them__. +14 And king Herod heard __of__ __him;__ (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him. +15 Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of the prophets. +16 But when Herod heard __thereof__, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead. +17 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her. +18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. +19 Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: +20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly. +21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief __estates__ of Galilee; +22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give __it__ thee. +23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give __it__ thee, unto the half of my kingdom. +24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. +25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist. +26 And the king was exceeding sorry; __yet__ for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. +27 And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison, +28 And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother. +29 And when his disciples heard __of__ __it__, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. +30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. +31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. +32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. +33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him. +34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. +35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time __is__ far passed: +36 Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat. +37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat? +38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. +39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. +40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. +41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave __them__ to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. +42 And they did all eat, and were filled. +43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. +44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men. +45 And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people. +46 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray. +47 And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land. +48 And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them. +49 But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out: +50 For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid. +51 And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered. +52 For they considered not __the__ __miracle__ of the loaves: for their heart was hardened. +53 And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore. +54 And when they were come out of the ship, straightway they knew him, +55 And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was. +56 And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 THEN came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. +2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. +3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash __their__ hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. +4 And __when__ __they__ __come__ from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, __as__ the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. +5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? +6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with __their__ lips, but their heart is far from me. +7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching __for__ doctrines the commandments of men. +8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, __as__ the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. +9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. +10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: +11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, __It__ __is__ Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; __he__ __shall__ __be__ __free__. +12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; +13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. +14 ¶ And when he had called all the people __unto__ __him__, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one __of__ __you__, and understand: +15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. +16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. +17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. +18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, __it__ cannot defile him; +19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? +20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. +21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, +22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: +23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. +24 ¶ And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know __it:__ but he could not be hid. +25 For a __certain__ woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: +26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. +27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast __it__ unto the dogs. +28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. +29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. +30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed. +31 ¶ And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. +32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. +33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; +34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. +35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. +36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published __it;__ +37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 IN those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples __unto__ __him__, and saith unto them, +2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: +3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. +4 And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these __men__ with bread here in the wilderness? +5 And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven. +6 And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before __them;__ and they did set __them__ before the people. +7 And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before __them__. +8 So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken __meat__ that was left seven baskets. +9 And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away. +10 ¶ And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha. +11 And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him. +12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation. +13 And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side. +14 ¶ Now __the__ __disciples__ had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. +15 And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and __of__ the leaven of Herod. +16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, __It__ __is__ because we have no bread. +17 And when Jesus knew __it__, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? +18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? +19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. +20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. +21 And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand? +22 ¶ And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him. +23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. +24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking. +25 After that he put __his__ hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly. +26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell __it__ to any in the town. +27 ¶ And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Cæsarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am? +28 And they answered, John the Baptist: but some __say__, Elias; and others, One of the prophets. +29 And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ. +30 And he charged them that they should tell no man of him. +31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and __of__ the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. +32 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him. +33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men. +34 ¶ And when he had called the people __unto__ __him__ with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. +35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. +36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? +37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? +38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power. +2 ¶ And after six days Jesus taketh __with__ __him__ Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them. +3 And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. +4 And there appeared unto them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus. +5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. +6 For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid. +7 And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. +8 And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves. +9 And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead. +10 And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean. +11 ¶ And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come? +12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought. +13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him. +14 ¶ And when he came to __his__ disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them. +15 And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to __him__ saluted him. +16 And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them? +17 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; +18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not. +19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me. +20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. +21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. +22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us. +23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things __are__ possible to him that believeth. +24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. +25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, __Thou__ dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. +26 And __the__ __spirit__ cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead. +27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. +28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? +29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. +30 ¶ And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know __it__. +31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day. +32 But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him. +33 ¶ And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way? +34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who __should__ __be__ the greatest. +35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, __the__ __same__ shall be last of all, and servant of all. +36 And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, +37 Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me. +38 ¶ And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. +39 But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. +40 For he that is not against us is on our part. +41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward. +42 And whosoever shall offend one of __these__ little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. +43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: +44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. +45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: +46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. +47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: +48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. +49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. +50 Salt __is__ good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judæa by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. +2 ¶ And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away __his__ wife? tempting him. +3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? +4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put __her__ away. +5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. +6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. +7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; +8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. +9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. +10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same __matter__. +11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. +12 And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. +13 ¶ And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and __his__ disciples rebuked those that brought __them__. +14 But when Jesus saw __it__, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. +15 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. +16 And he took them up in his arms, put __his__ hands upon them, and blessed them. +17 ¶ And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? +18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? __there__ __is__ none good but one, __that__ __is__, God. +19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. +20 And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. +21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. +22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions. +23 ¶ And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! +24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! +25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. +26 And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved? +27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men __it__ __is__ impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. +28 ¶ Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. +29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, +30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life. +31 But many __that__ __are__ first shall be last; and the last first. +32 ¶ And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him, +33 __Saying__, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: +34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again. +35 ¶ And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. +36 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? +37 They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. +38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? +39 And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized: +40 But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but __it__ __shall__ __be__ __given__ __to__ __them__ for whom it is prepared. +41 And when the ten heard __it__, they began to be much displeased with James and John. +42 But Jesus called them __to__ __him__, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. +43 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: +44 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. +45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. +46 ¶ And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimæus, the son of Timæus, sat by the highway side begging. +47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, __thou__ Son of David, have mercy on me. +48 And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, __Thou__ Son of David, have mercy on me. +49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee. +50 And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus. +51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight. +52 And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples, +2 And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring __him__. +3 And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither. +4 And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him. +5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt? +6 And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go. +7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him. +8 And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed __them__ in the way. +9 And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed __is__ he that cometh in the name of the Lord: +10 Blessed __be__ the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. +11 And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve. +12 ¶ And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: +13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not __yet__. +14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard __it__. +15 ¶ And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; +16 And would not suffer that any man should carry __any__ vessel through the temple. +17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. +18 And the scribes and chief priests heard __it__, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine. +19 And when even was come, he went out of the city. +20 ¶ And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. +21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. +22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. +23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. +24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive __them__, and ye shall have __them__. +25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. +26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. +27 ¶ And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, +28 And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things? +29 And Jesus answered and said unto them, I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. +30 The baptism of John, was __it__ from heaven, or of men? answer me. +31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him? +32 But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all __men__ counted John, that he was a prophet indeed. +33 And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND he began to speak unto them by parables. A __certain__ man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about __it__, and digged __a__ __place__ __for__ the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. +2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. +3 And they caught __him__, and beat him, and sent __him__ away empty. +4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded __him__ in the head, and sent __him__ away shamefully handled. +5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. +6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son. +7 But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. +8 And they took him, and killed __him__, and cast __him__ out of the vineyard. +9 What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others. +10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: +11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? +12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way. +13 ¶ And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in __his__ words. +14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Cæsar, or not? +15 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see __it__. +16 And they brought __it__. And he saith unto them, Whose __is__ this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Cæsar's. +17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him. +18 ¶ Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, +19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave __his__ wife __behind__ __him__, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. +20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed. +21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise. +22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also. +23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife. +24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? +25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven. +26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I __am__ the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? +27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. +28 ¶ And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? +29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments __is__, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: +30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this __is__ the first commandment. +31 And the second __is__ like, __namely__ this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. +32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: +33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love __his__ neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. +34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him __any__ __question__. +35 ¶ And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David? +36 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. +37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he __then__ his son? And the common people heard him gladly. +38 ¶ And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and __love__ salutations in the marketplaces, +39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: +40 Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. +41 ¶ And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. +42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. +43 And he called __unto__ __him__ his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: +44 For all __they__ did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, __even__ all her living. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings __are__ __here!__ +2 And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. +3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, +4 Tell us, when shall these things be? and what __shall__ __be__ the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? +5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any __man__ deceive you: +6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am __Christ;__ and shall deceive many. +7 And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for __such__ __things__ must needs be; but the end __shall__ not __be__ yet. +8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these __are__ the beginnings of sorrows. +9 ¶ But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them. +10 And the gospel must first be published among all nations. +11 But when they shall lead __you__, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. +12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against __their__ parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. +13 And ye shall be hated of all __men__ for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. +14 ¶ But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains: +15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter __therein__, to take any thing out of his house: +16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. +17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! +18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. +19 For __in__ those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. +20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. +21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here __is__ Christ; or, lo, __he__ __is__ there; believe __him__ not: +22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if __it__ __were__ possible, even the elect. +23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. +24 ¶ But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, +25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. +26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. +27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. +28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: +29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, __even__ at the doors. +30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. +31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. +32 ¶ But of that day and __that__ hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. +33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. +34 __For__ __the__ __Son__ __of__ __man__ __is__ as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. +35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: +36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. +37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AFTER two days was __the__ __feast__ __of__ the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put __him__ to death. +2 But they said, Not on the feast __day__, lest there be an uproar of the people. +3 ¶ And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured __it__ on his head. +4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? +5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. +6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. +7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. +8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. +9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, __this__ also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her. +10 ¶ And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them. +11 And when they heard __it__, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him. +12 ¶ And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover? +13 And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him. +14 And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? +15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished __and__ prepared: there make ready for us. +16 And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. +17 And in the evening he cometh with the twelve. +18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me. +19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, __Is__ it I? and another __said__, __Is__ it I? +20 And he answered and said unto them, __It__ __is__ one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish. +21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born. +22 ¶ And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake __it__, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. +23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave __it__ to them: and they all drank of it. +24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. +25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God. +26 ¶ And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. +27 And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. +28 But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee. +29 But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet __will__ not I. +30 And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, __even__ in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. +31 But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all. +32 And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray. +33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; +34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. +35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. +36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things __are__ possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt. +37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? +38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly __is__ ready, but the flesh __is__ weak. +39 And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words. +40 And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him. +41 And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take __your__ rest: it is enough, the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. +42 Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand. +43 ¶ And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. +44 And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead __him__ away safely. +45 And as soon as he was come, he goeth straightway to him, and saith, Master, master; and kissed him. +46 ¶ And they laid their hands on him, and took him. +47 And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear. +48 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and __with__ staves to take me? +49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled. +50 And they all forsook him, and fled. +51 And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about __his__ naked __body;__ and the young men laid hold on him: +52 And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. +53 ¶ And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes. +54 And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire. +55 And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none. +56 For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together. +57 And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, +58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands. +59 But neither so did their witness agree together. +60 And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what __is__ __it__ __which__ these witness against thee? +61 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? +62 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. +63 Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? +64 Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death. +65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands. +66 ¶ And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest: +67 And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth. +68 But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. +69 And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is __one__ of them. +70 And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art __one__ of them: for thou art a Galilæan, and thy speech agreeth __thereto__. +71 But he began to curse and to swear, __saying__, I know not this man of whom ye speak. +72 And the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AND straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried __him__ away, and delivered __him__ to Pilate. +2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest __it__. +3 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. +4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. +5 But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled. +6 Now at __that__ feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. +7 And there was __one__ named Barabbas, __which__ __lay__ bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection. +8 And the multitude crying aloud began to desire __him__ __to__ __do__ as he had ever done unto them. +9 But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews? +10 For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy. +11 But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them. +12 And Pilate answered and said again unto them, What will ye then that I shall do __unto__ __him__ whom ye call the King of the Jews? +13 And they cried out again, Crucify him. +14 Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him. +15 ¶ And __so__ Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged __him__, to be crucified. +16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Prætorium; and they call together the whole band. +17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his __head__, +18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! +19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing __their__ knees worshipped him. +20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him. +21 And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. +22 And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull. +23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received __it__ not. +24 And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take. +25 And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. +26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS. +27 And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left. +28 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors. +29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest __it__ in three days, +30 Save thyself, and come down from the cross. +31 Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save. +32 Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him. +33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. +34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? +35 And some of them that stood by, when they heard __it__, said, Behold, he calleth Elias. +36 And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put __it__ on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down. +37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. +38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. +39 ¶ And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God. +40 There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome; +41 (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem. +42 ¶ And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, +43 Joseph of Arimathæa, an honourable counseller, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. +44 And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling __unto__ __him__ the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. +45 And when he knew __it__ of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. +46 And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre. +47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary __the__ __mother__ of Joses beheld where he was laid. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the __mother__ of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. +2 And very early in the morning the first __day__ of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. +3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? +4 And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. +5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. +6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. +7 But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you. +8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any __man;__ for they were afraid. +9 ¶ Now when __Jesus__ was risen early the first __day__ of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. +10 __And__ she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept. +11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not. +12 ¶ After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country. +13 And they went and told __it__ unto the residue: neither believed they them. +14 ¶ Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. +15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. +16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. +17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; +18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. +19 ¶ So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. +20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with __them__, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. +:::SET BOOK Luke +:::SET TITLE The Gospel According to St. Luke +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, +2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; +3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, +4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. +5 ¶ THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judæa, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife __was__ of the daughters of Aaron, and her name __was__ Elisabeth. +6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. +7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were __now__ well stricken in years. +8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, +9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. +10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. +11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. +12 And when Zacharias saw __him__, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. +13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. +14 And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. +15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. +16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. +17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. +18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. +19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. +20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season. +21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple. +22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless. +23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. +24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, +25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on __me__, to take away my reproach among men. +26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, +27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name __was__ Mary. +28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, __thou__ __that__ __art__ highly favoured, the Lord __is__ with thee: blessed __art__ thou among women. +29 And when she saw __him__, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. +30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. +31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. +32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: +33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. +34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? +35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. +36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. +37 For with God nothing shall be impossible. +38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. +39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; +40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. +41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: +42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed __art__ thou among women, and blessed __is__ the fruit of thy womb. +43 And whence __is__ this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? +44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. +45 And blessed __is__ she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. +46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, +47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. +48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. +49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy __is__ his name. +50 And his mercy __is__ on them that fear him from generation to generation. +51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. +52 He hath put down the mighty from __their__ seats, and exalted them of low degree. +53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. +54 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of __his__ mercy; +55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. +56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house. +57 Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. +58 And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. +59 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. +60 And his mother answered and said, Not __so;__ but he shall be called John. +61 And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name. +62 And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. +63 And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all. +64 And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue __loosed__, and he spake, and praised God. +65 And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judæa. +66 And all they that heard __them__ laid __them__ up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him. +67 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, +68 Blessed __be__ the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, +69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; +70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: +71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; +72 To perform the mercy __promised__ to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; +73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, +74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, +75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. +76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; +77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, +78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, +79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and __in__ the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. +80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. +2 (__And__ this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) +3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. +4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judæa, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) +5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. +6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. +7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. +8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. +9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. +10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. +11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. +12 And this __shall__ __be__ a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. +13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, +14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. +15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. +16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. +17 And when they had seen __it__, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. +18 And all they that heard __it__ wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. +19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered __them__ in her heart. +20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. +21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. +22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present __him__ to the Lord; +23 (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;) +24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons. +25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name __was__ Simeon; and the same man __was__ just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. +26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ. +27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, +28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, +29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: +30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, +31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; +32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel. +33 And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. +34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this __child__ is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; +35 (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. +36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; +37 And she __was__ a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served __God__ with fastings and prayers night and day. +38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem. +39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. +40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. +41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. +42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. +43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not __of__ __it__. +44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among __their__ kinsfolk and acquaintance. +45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. +46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. +47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. +48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. +49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? +50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. +51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. +52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 NOW in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, +2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. +3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; +4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. +5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways __shall__ __be__ made smooth; +6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God. +7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? +8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to __our__ father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. +9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. +10 And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? +11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. +12 Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do? +13 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. +14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse __any__ falsely; and be content with your wages. +15 And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not; +16 John answered, saying unto __them__ all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: +17 Whose fan __is__ in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable. +18 And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people. +19 But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, +20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison. +21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, +22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. +23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was __the__ __son__ of Heli, +24 Which was __the__ __son__ of Matthat, which was __the__ __son__ of Levi, which was __the__ __son__ of Melchi, which was __the__ __son__ of Janna, which was __the__ __son__ of Joseph, +25 Which was __the__ __son__ of Mattathias, which was __the__ __son__ of Amos, which was __the__ __son__ of Naum, which was __the__ __son__ of Esli, which was __the__ __son__ of Nagge, +26 Which was __the__ __son__ of Maath, which was __the__ __son__ of Mattathias, which was __the__ __son__ of Semei, which was __the__ __son__ of Joseph, which was __the__ __son__ of Juda, +27 Which was __the__ __son__ of Joanna, which was __the__ __son__ of Rhesa, which was __the__ __son__ of Zorobabel, which was __the__ __son__ of Salathiel, which was __the__ __son__ of Neri, +28 Which was __the__ __son__ of Melchi, which was __the__ __son__ of Addi, which was __the__ __son__ of Cosam, which was __the__ __son__ of Elmodam, which was __the__ __son__ of Er, +29 Which was __the__ __son__ of Jose, which was __the__ __son__ of Eliezer, which was __the__ __son__ of Jorim, which was __the__ __son__ of Matthat, which was __the__ __son__ of Levi, +30 Which was __the__ __son__ of Simeon, which was __the__ __son__ of Juda, which was __the__ __son__ of Joseph, which was __the__ __son__ of Jonan, which was __the__ __son__ of Eliakim, +31 Which was __the__ __son__ of Melea, which was __the__ __son__ of Menan, which was __the__ __son__ of Mattatha, which was __the__ __son__ of Nathan, which was __the__ __son__ of David, +32 Which was __the__ __son__ of Jesse, which was __the__ __son__ of Obed, which was __the__ __son__ of Booz, which was __the__ __son__ of Salmon, which was __the__ __son__ of Naasson, +33 Which was __the__ __son__ of Aminadab, which was __the__ __son__ of Aram, which was __the__ __son__ of Esrom, which was __the__ __son__ of Phares, which was __the__ __son__ of Juda, +34 Which was __the__ __son__ of Jacob, which was __the__ __son__ of Isaac, which was __the__ __son__ of Abraham, which was __the__ __son__ of Thara, which was __the__ __son__ of Nachor, +35 Which was __the__ __son__ of Saruch, which was __the__ __son__ of Ragau, which was __the__ __son__ of Phalec, which was __the__ __son__ of Heber, which was __the__ __son__ of Sala, +36 Which was __the__ __son__ of Cainan, which was __the__ __son__ of Arphaxad, which was __the__ __son__ of Sem, which was __the__ __son__ of Noe, which was __the__ __son__ of Lamech, +37 Which was __the__ __son__ of Mathusala, which was __the__ __son__ of Enoch, which was __the__ __son__ of Jared, which was __the__ __son__ of Maleleel, which was __the__ __son__ of Cainan, +38 Which was __the__ __son__ of Enos, which was __the__ __son__ of Seth, which was __the__ __son__ of Adam, which was __the__ __son__ of God. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, +2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. +3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. +4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. +5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. +6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. +7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. +8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. +9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: +10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: +11 And in __their__ hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. +12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. +13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. +14 ¶ And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. +15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. +16 ¶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. +17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, +18 The Spirit of the Lord __is__ upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, +19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. +20 And he closed the book, and he gave __it__ again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. +21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. +22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? +23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. +24 And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. +25 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; +26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, __a__ __city__ of Sidon, unto a woman __that__ __was__ a widow. +27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. +28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, +29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. +30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way, +31 And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days. +32 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power. +33 ¶ And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, +34 Saying, Let __us__ alone; what have we to do with thee, __thou__ Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God. +35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not. +36 And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word __is__ this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out. +37 And the fame of him went out into every place of the country round about. +38 ¶ And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. +39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them. +40 ¶ Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them. +41 And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking __them__ suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ. +42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them. +43 And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent. +44 And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, +2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing __their__ nets. +3 And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. +4 Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. +5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. +6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. +7 And they beckoned unto __their__ partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink. +8 When Simon Peter saw __it__, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord. +9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: +10 And so __was__ also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men. +11 And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him. +12 ¶ And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on __his__ face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. +13 And he put forth __his__ hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him. +14 And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. +15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. +16 ¶ And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed. +17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judæa, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was __present__ to heal them. +18 ¶ And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought __means__ to bring him in, and to lay __him__ before him. +19 And when they could not find by what __way__ they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with __his__ couch into the midst before Jesus. +20 And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee. +21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone? +22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts? +23 Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk? +24 But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house. +25 And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God. +26 And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day. +27 ¶ And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. +28 And he left all, rose up, and followed him. +29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. +30 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? +31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. +32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. +33 ¶ And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise __the__ __disciples__ of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? +34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? +35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. +36 ¶ And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was __taken__ out of the new agreeth not with the old. +37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. +38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. +39 No man also having drunk old __wine__ straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing __them__ in __their__ hands. +2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days? +3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him; +4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone? +5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. +6 And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered. +7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. +8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth. +9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy __it?__ +10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other. +11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus. +12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. +13 ¶ And when it was day, he called __unto__ __him__ his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; +14 Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, +15 Matthew and Thomas, James the __son__ of Alphæus, and Simon called Zelotes, +16 And Judas __the__ __brother__ of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor. +17 ¶ And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judæa and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; +18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. +19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed __them__ all. +20 ¶ And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed __be__ __ye__ poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. +21 Blessed __are__ __ye__ that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed __are__ __ye__ that weep now: for ye shall laugh. +22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you __from__ __their__ __company__, and shall reproach __you__, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. +23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward __is__ great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. +24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. +25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. +26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. +27 ¶ But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, +28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. +29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the __one__ cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not __to__ __take__ __thy__ coat also. +30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask __them__ not again. +31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. +32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. +33 And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. +34 And if ye lend __to__ __them__ of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. +35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and __to__ the evil. +36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. +37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: +38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. +39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? +40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. +41 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? +42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye. +43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. +44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. +45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. +46 ¶ And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? +47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like: +48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. +49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 NOW when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum. +2 And a certain centurion's servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die. +3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant. +4 And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this: +5 For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue. +6 Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof: +7 Wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto thee: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed. +8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth __it__. +9 When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. +10 And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick. +11 ¶ And it came to pass the day after, that he went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people. +12 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. +13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. +14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare __him__ stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. +15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. +16 And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people. +17 And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judæa, and throughout all the region round about. +18 And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things. +19 ¶ And John calling __unto__ __him__ two of his disciples sent __them__ to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? +20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? +21 And in that same hour he cured many of __their__ infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many __that__ __were__ blind he gave sight. +22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached. +23 And blessed is __he__, whosoever shall not be offended in me. +24 ¶ And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? +25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts. +26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. +27 This is __he__, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. +28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. +29 And all the people that heard __him__, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. +30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. +31 ¶ And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? +32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. +33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. +34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! +35 But wisdom is justified of all her children. +36 ¶ And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. +37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that __Jesus__ sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, +38 And stood at his feet behind __him__ weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe __them__ with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed __them__ with the ointment. +39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw __it__, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman __this__ __is__ that toucheth him: for she is a sinner. +40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. +41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. +42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? +43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that __he__, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. +44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped __them__ with the hairs of her head. +45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet. +46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. +47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, __the__ __same__ loveth little. +48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. +49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? +50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve __were__ with him, +2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, +3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance. +4 ¶ And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: +5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. +6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. +7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. +8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. +9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? +10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. +11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. +12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. +13 They on the rock __are__ __they__, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. +14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of __this__ life, and bring no fruit to perfection. +15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep __it__, and bring forth fruit with patience. +16 ¶ No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth __it__ under a bed; but setteth __it__ on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light. +17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither __any__ __thing__ hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. +18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have. +19 ¶ Then came to him __his__ mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press. +20 And it was told him __by__ __certain__ which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. +21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it. +22 ¶ Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth. +23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled __with__ __water__, and were in jeopardy. +24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm. +25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him. +26 ¶ And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee. +27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in __any__ house, but in the tombs. +28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, __thou__ Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not. +29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.) +30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him. +31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. +32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. +33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked. +34 When they that fed __them__ saw what was done, they fled, and went and told __it__ in the city and in the country. +35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. +36 They also which saw __it__ told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed. +37 ¶ Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again. +38 Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying, +39 Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him. +40 And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people __gladly__ received him: for they were all waiting for him. +41 ¶ And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: +42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him. +43 ¶ And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, +44 Came behind __him__, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. +45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press __thee__, and sayest thou, Who touched me? +46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. +47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. +48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. +49 ¶ While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's __house__, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master. +50 But when Jesus heard __it__, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole. +51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. +52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. +53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. +54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. +55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat. +56 And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 THEN he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. +2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. +3 And he said unto them, Take nothing for __your__ journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. +4 And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart. +5 And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. +6 And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where. +7 ¶ Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead; +8 And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again. +9 And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him. +10 ¶ And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. +11 And the people, when they knew __it__, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing. +12 And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place. +13 But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people. +14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company. +15 And they did so, and made them all sit down. +16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. +17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets. +18 ¶ And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am? +19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some __say__, Elias; and others __say__, that one of the old prophets is risen again. +20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God. +21 And he straitly charged them, and commanded __them__ to tell no man that thing; +22 Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. +23 ¶ And he said to __them__ all, If any __man__ will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. +24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. +25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? +26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and __in__ __his__ Father's, and of the holy angels. +27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God. +28 ¶ And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. +29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment __was__ white __and__ glistering. +30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: +31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. +32 But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him. +33 And it came to pass, as they departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias: not knowing what he said. +34 While he thus spake, there came a cloud, and overshadowed them: and they feared as they entered into the cloud. +35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. +36 And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept __it__ close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen. +37 ¶ And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him. +38 And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child. +39 And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him. +40 And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not. +41 And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither. +42 And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare __him__. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father. +43 ¶ And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples, +44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men. +45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying. +46 ¶ Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest. +47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him, +48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great. +49 ¶ And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. +50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid __him__ not: for he that is not against us is for us. +51 ¶ And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, +52 And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. +53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. +54 And when his disciples James and John saw __this__, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? +55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. +56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save __them__. And they went to another village. +57 ¶ And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain __man__ said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. +58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air __have__ nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay __his__ head. +59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. +60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. +61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. +62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AFTER these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. +2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly __is__ great, but the labourers __are__ few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. +3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. +4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way. +5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace __be__ to this house. +6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again. +7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house. +8 And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you: +9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. +10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, +11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. +12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city. +13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. +14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you. +15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. +16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. +17 ¶ And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. +18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. +19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. +20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. +21 ¶ In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight. +22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and __he__ to whom the Son will reveal __him__. +23 ¶ And he turned him unto __his__ disciples, and said privately, Blessed __are__ the eyes which see the things that ye see: +24 For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen __them;__ and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard __them__. +25 ¶ And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? +26 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? +27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. +28 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. +29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? +30 And Jesus answering said, A certain __man__ went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded __him__, and departed, leaving __him__ half dead. +31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. +32 And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked __on__ __him__, and passed by on the other side. +33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion __on__ __him__, +34 And went to __him__, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. +35 And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave __them__ to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. +36 Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? +37 And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. +38 ¶ Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. +39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word. +40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. +41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: +42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. +2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. +3 Give us day by day our daily bread. +4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. +5 And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; +6 For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? +7 And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. +8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. +9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. +10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. +11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if __he__ __ask__ a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? +12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? +13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall __your__ heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? +14 ¶ And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. +15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils. +16 And others, tempting __him__, sought of him a sign from heaven. +17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house __divided__ against a house falleth. +18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. +19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast __them__ out? therefore shall they be your judges. +20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. +21 When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: +22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. +23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth. +24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. +25 And when he cometh, he findeth __it__ swept and garnished. +26 Then goeth he, and taketh __to__ __him__ seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last __state__ of that man is worse than the first. +27 ¶ And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed __is__ the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. +28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed __are__ they that hear the word of God, and keep it. +29 ¶ And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. +30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. +31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon __is__ here. +32 The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas __is__ here. +33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth __it__ in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. +34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when __thine__ __eye__ is evil, thy body also __is__ full of darkness. +35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. +36 If thy whole body therefore __be__ full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. +37 ¶ And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. +38 And when the Pharisee saw __it__, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. +39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. +40 __Ye__ fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? +41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you. +42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. +43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. +44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over __them__ are not aware __of__ __them__. +45 ¶ Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. +46 And he said, Woe unto you also, __ye__ lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. +47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. +48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. +49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and __some__ of them they shall slay and persecute: +50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; +51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. +52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. +53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge __him__ vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: +54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 IN the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. +2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. +3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. +4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. +5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him. +6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? +7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. +8 Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: +9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. +10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven. +11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and __unto__ magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: +12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say. +13 ¶ And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. +14 And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? +15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. +16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: +17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? +18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. +19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, __and__ be merry. +20 But God said unto him, __Thou__ fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? +21 So __is__ he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. +22 ¶ And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. +23 The life is more than meat, and the body __is__ __more__ than raiment. +24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? +25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? +26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? +27 Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. +28 If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more __will__ __he__ __clothe__ you, O ye of little faith? +29 And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. +30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. +31 ¶ But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. +32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. +33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. +34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. +35 Let your loins be girded about, and __your__ lights burning; +36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately. +37 Blessed __are__ those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. +38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find __them__ so, blessed are those servants. +39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. +40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not. +41 ¶ Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all? +42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom __his__ lord shall make ruler over his household, to give __them__ __their__ portion of meat in due season? +43 Blessed __is__ that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. +44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. +45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; +46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for __him__, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. +47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not __himself__, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many __stripes__. +48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few __stripes__. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. +49 ¶ I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? +50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! +51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: +52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. +53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. +54 ¶ And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. +55 And when __ye__ __see__ the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. +56 __Ye__ hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? +57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? +58 ¶ When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, __as__ __thou__ __art__ in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison. +59 I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 THERE were present at that season some that told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. +2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilæans were sinners above all the Galilæans, because they suffered such things? +3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. +4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? +5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. +6 ¶ He spake also this parable; A certain __man__ had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. +7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? +8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung __it:__ +9 And if it bear fruit, __well:__ and if not, __then__ after that thou shalt cut it down. +10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. +11 ¶ And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up __herself__. +12 And when Jesus saw her, he called __her__ __to__ __him__, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity. +13 And he laid __his__ hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. +14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. +15 The Lord then answered him, and said, __Thou__ hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or __his__ ass from the stall, and lead __him__ away to watering? +16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? +17 And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him. +18 ¶ Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? +19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it. +20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? +21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. +22 And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem. +23 Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, +24 ¶ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. +25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: +26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. +27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all __ye__ workers of iniquity. +28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you __yourselves__ thrust out. +29 And they shall come from the east, and __from__ the west, and from the north, and __from__ the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. +30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last. +31 ¶ The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. +32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third __day__ I shall be perfected. +33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the __day__ following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. +34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen __doth__ __gather__ her brood under __her__ wings, and ye would not! +35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until __the__ __time__ come when ye shall say, Blessed __is__ he that cometh in the name of the Lord. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AND it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. +2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. +3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? +4 And they held their peace. And he took __him__, and healed him, and let him go; +5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? +6 And they could not answer him again to these things. +7 ¶ And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, +8 When thou art bidden of any __man__ to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; +9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. +10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. +11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. +12 ¶ Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor __thy__ rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. +13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: +14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. +15 ¶ And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed __is__ he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. +16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: +17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. +18 And they all with one __consent__ began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. +19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. +20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. +21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. +22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. +23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel __them__ to come in, that my house may be filled. +24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. +25 ¶ And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, +26 If any __man__ come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. +27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. +28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have __sufficient__ to finish __it?__ +29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish __it__, all that behold __it__ begin to mock him, +30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. +31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? +32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. +33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. +34 ¶ Salt __is__ good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? +35 It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; __but__ men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 THEN drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. +2 And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. +3 ¶ And he spake this parable unto them, saying, +4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? +5 And when he hath found __it__, he layeth __it__ on his shoulders, rejoicing. +6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together __his__ friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. +7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. +8 ¶ Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find __it?__ +9 And when she hath found __it__, she calleth __her__ friends and __her__ neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. +10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. +11 ¶ And he said, A certain man had two sons: +12 And the younger of them said to __his__ father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth __to__ __me__. And he divided unto them __his__ living. +13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. +14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. +15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. +16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. +17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! +18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, +19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. +20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. +21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. +22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put __it__ on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on __his__ feet: +23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill __it;__ and let us eat, and be merry: +24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry. +25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. +26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant. +27 And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound. +28 And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him. +29 And he answering said to __his__ father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: +30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. +31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. +32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 AND he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. +2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. +3 Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. +4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. +5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors __unto__ __him__, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? +6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. +7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. +8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. +9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. +10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. +11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true __riches?__ +12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? +13 ¶ No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. +14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. +15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. +16 The law and the prophets __were__ until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. +17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. +18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from __her__ husband committeth adultery. +19 ¶ There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: +20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, +21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. +22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; +23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. +24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. +25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. +26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that __would__ __come__ from thence. +27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: +28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. +29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. +30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. +31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 THEN said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe __unto__ __him__, through whom they come! +2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. +3 ¶ Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. +4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him. +5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. +6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you. +7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? +8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? +9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not. +10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. +11 ¶ And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. +12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: +13 And they lifted up __their__ voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. +14 And when he saw __them__, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. +15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, +16 And fell down on __his__ face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. +17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where __are__ the nine? +18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. +19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole. +20 ¶ And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: +21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. +22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see __it__. +23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after __them__, nor follow __them__. +24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one __part__ under heaven, shineth unto the other __part__ under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. +25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. +26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. +27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. +28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; +29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed __them__ all. +30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. +31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. +32 Remember Lot's wife. +33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. +34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two __men__ in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. +35 Two __women__ shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. +36 Two __men__ shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. +37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body __is__, thither will the eagles be gathered together. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AND he spake a parable unto them __to__ __this__ __end__, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; +2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: +3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. +4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; +5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. +6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. +7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? +8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? +9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: +10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. +11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men __are__, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. +12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. +13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as __his__ eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. +14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified __rather__ than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. +15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when __his__ disciples saw __it__, they rebuked them. +16 But Jesus called them __unto__ __him__, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. +17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. +18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? +19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none __is__ good, save one, __that__ __is__, God. +20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. +21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. +22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. +23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. +24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! +25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. +26 And they that heard __it__ said, Who then can be saved? +27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. +28 Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee. +29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, +30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting. +31 ¶ Then he took __unto__ __him__ the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. +32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on: +33 And they shall scourge __him__, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again. +34 And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken. +35 ¶ And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: +36 And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant. +37 And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by. +38 And he cried, saying, Jesus, __thou__ Son of David, have mercy on me. +39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, __Thou__ Son of David, have mercy on me. +40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him, +41 Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. +42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. +43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw __it__, gave praise unto God. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND __Jesus__ entered and passed through Jericho. +2 And, behold, __there__ __was__ a man named Zacchæus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. +3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. +4 And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that __way__. +5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchæus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house. +6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully. +7 And when they saw __it__, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner. +8 And Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore __him__ fourfold. +9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. +10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. +11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. +12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. +13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come. +14 But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this __man__ to reign over us. +15 And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. +16 Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds. +17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities. +18 And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds. +19 And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities. +20 And another came, saying, Lord, behold, __here__ __is__ thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin: +21 For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow. +22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, __thou__ wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: +23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury? +24 And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give __it__ to him that hath ten pounds. +25 (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.) +26 For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him. +27 But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay __them__ before me. +28 ¶ And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem. +29 And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called __the__ __mount__ of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, +30 Saying, Go ye into the village over against __you;__ in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring __him__ __hither__. +31 And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose __him?__ thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him. +32 And they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had said unto them. +33 And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt? +34 And they said, The Lord hath need of him. +35 And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon. +36 And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way. +37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; +38 Saying, Blessed __be__ the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest. +39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. +40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. +41 ¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, +42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things __which__ __belong__ unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. +43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, +44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. +45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; +46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. +47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, +48 And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND it came to pass, __that__ on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon __him__ with the elders, +2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority? +3 And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me: +4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? +5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not? +6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet. +7 And they answered, that they could not tell whence __it__ __was__. +8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. +9 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. +10 And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent __him__ away empty. +11 And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated __him__ shamefully, and sent __him__ away empty. +12 And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast __him__ out. +13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence __him__ when they see him. +14 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. +15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed __him__. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them? +16 He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard __it__, they said, God forbid. +17 And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? +18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. +19 ¶ And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them. +20 And they watched __him__, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor. +21 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person __of__ __any__, but teachest the way of God truly: +22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Cæsar, or no? +23 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me? +24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cæsar's. +25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which be Cæsar's, and unto God the things which be God's. +26 And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace. +27 ¶ Then came to __him__ certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, +28 Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. +29 There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. +30 And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. +31 And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died. +32 Last of all the woman died also. +33 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. +34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: +35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: +36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. +37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. +38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him. +39 ¶ Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said. +40 And after that they durst not ask him any __question__ __at__ __all__. +41 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? +42 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, +43 Till I make thine enemies thy footstool. +44 David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son? +45 ¶ Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples, +46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; +47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. +2 And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. +3 And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: +4 For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. +5 ¶ And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, +6 __As__ __for__ these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. +7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign __will__ __there__ __be__ when these things shall come to pass? +8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am __Christ;__ and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. +9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end __is__ not by and by. +10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: +11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. +12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute __you__, delivering __you__ up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. +13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony. +14 Settle __it__ therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: +15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. +16 And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and __some__ of you shall they cause to be put to death. +17 And ye shall be hated of all __men__ for my name's sake. +18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish. +19 In your patience possess ye your souls. +20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. +21 Then let them which are in Judæa flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. +22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. +23 But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. +24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. +25 ¶ And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; +26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. +27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. +28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. +29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; +30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. +31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. +32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. +33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. +34 ¶ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and __so__ that day come upon you unawares. +35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. +36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. +37 And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called __the__ __mount__ of Olives. +38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 NOW the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover. +2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. +3 ¶ Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. +4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. +5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money. +6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude. +7 ¶ Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. +8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. +9 And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare? +10 And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in. +11 And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? +12 And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready. +13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. +14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. +15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: +16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. +17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide __it__ among yourselves: +18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. +19 ¶ And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake __it__, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. +20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup __is__ the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. +21 ¶ But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me __is__ with me on the table. +22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed! +23 And they began to inquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing. +24 ¶ And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. +25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. +26 But ye __shall__ not __be__ so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. +27 For whether __is__ greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? __is__ not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. +28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. +29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; +30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. +31 ¶ And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired __to__ __have__ you, that he may sift __you__ as wheat: +32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. +33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death. +34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me. +35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. +36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take __it__, and likewise __his__ scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. +37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. +38 And they said, Lord, behold, here __are__ two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough. +39 ¶ And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him. +40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation. +41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, +42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. +43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. +44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. +45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow, +46 And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. +47 ¶ And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him. +48 But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? +49 When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword? +50 ¶ And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. +51 And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him. +52 Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves? +53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness. +54 ¶ Then took they him, and led __him__, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off. +55 And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them. +56 But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. +57 And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not. +58 And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not. +59 And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this __fellow__ also was with him: for he is a Galilæan. +60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew. +61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. +62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly. +63 ¶ And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote __him__. +64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee? +65 And many other things blasphemously spake they against him. +66 ¶ And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying, +67 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe: +68 And if I also ask __you__, ye will not answer me, nor let __me__ go. +69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. +70 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am. +71 And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 AND the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. +2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this __fellow__ perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar, saying that he himself is Christ a King. +3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest __it__. +4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and __to__ the people, I find no fault in this man. +5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place. +6 When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilæan. +7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time. +8 ¶ And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long __season__, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him. +9 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing. +10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him. +11 And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked __him__, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate. +12 ¶ And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves. +13 ¶ And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, +14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined __him__ before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: +15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him. +16 I will therefore chastise him, and release __him__. +17 (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.) +18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this __man__, and release unto us Barabbas: +19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) +20 Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. +21 But they cried, saying, Crucify __him__, crucify him. +22 And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let __him__ go. +23 And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. +24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required. +25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will. +26 And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear __it__ after Jesus. +27 ¶ And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. +28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. +29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed __are__ the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. +30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. +31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? +32 And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death. +33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. +34 ¶ Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. +35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided __him__, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. +36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, +37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself. +38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. +39 ¶ And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. +40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? +41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. +42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. +43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. +44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. +45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. +46 ¶ And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. +47 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. +48 And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned. +49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things. +50 ¶ And, behold, __there__ __was__ a man named Joseph, a counseller; __and__ __he__ __was__ a good man, and a just: +51 (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) __he__ __was__ of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. +52 This __man__ went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. +53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. +54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. +55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. +56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 NOW upon the first __day__ of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain __others__ with them. +2 And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. +3 And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus. +4 And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: +5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down __their__ faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead? +6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, +7 Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again. +8 And they remembered his words, +9 And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest. +10 It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary __the__ __mother__ of James, and other __women__ __that__ __were__ with them, which told these things unto the apostles. +11 And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. +12 Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass. +13 ¶ And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem __about__ threescore furlongs. +14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened. +15 And it came to pass, that, while they communed __together__ and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. +16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. +17 And he said unto them, What manner of communications __are__ these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? +18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? +19 And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: +20 And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. +21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done. +22 Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre; +23 And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive. +24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found __it__ even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. +25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: +26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? +27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. +28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. +29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. +30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed __it__, and brake, and gave to them. +31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. +32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? +33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, +34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon. +35 And they told what things __were__ __done__ in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread. +36 ¶ And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace __be__ unto you. +37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. +38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? +39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. +40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them __his__ hands and __his__ feet. +41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? +42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. +43 And he took __it__, and did eat before them. +44 And he said unto them, These __are__ the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and __in__ the prophets, and __in__ the psalms, concerning me. +45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, +46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third 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. +:::SET BOOK John +:::SET TITLE The Gospel According to St. John +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. +2 The same was in the beginning with God. +3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. +4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. +5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. +6 ¶ There was a man sent from God, whose name __was__ John. +7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all __men__ through him might believe. +8 He was not that Light, but __was__ __sent__ to bear witness of that Light. +9 __That__ was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. +10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. +11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. +12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, __even__ to them that believe on his name: +13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. +14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. +15 ¶ John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. +16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. +17 For the law was given by Moses, __but__ grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. +18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared __him__. +19 ¶ And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? +20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. +21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. +22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? +23 He said, I __am__ the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. +24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. +25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? +26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; +27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. +28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. +29 ¶ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. +30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. +31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. +32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. +33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. +34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God. +35 ¶ Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples; +36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! +37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. +38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou? +39 He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour. +40 One of the two which heard John __speak__, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. +41 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. +42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. +43 ¶ The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow me. +44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. +45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. +46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see. +47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! +48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. +49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. +50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these. +51 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: +2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. +3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. +4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. +5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do __it__. +6 And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece. +7 Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. +8 And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare __it__. +9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, +10 And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: __but__ thou hast kept the good wine until now. +11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him. +12 ¶ After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days. +13 ¶ And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, +14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: +15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; +16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise. +17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. +18 ¶ Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? +19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. +20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? +21 But he spake of the temple of his body. +22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. +23 ¶ Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast __day__, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. +24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all __men__, +25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THERE was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: +2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. +3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. +4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? +5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and __of__ the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. +6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. +7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. +8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. +9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? +10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? +11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. +12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you __of__ heavenly things? +13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, __even__ the Son of man which is in heaven. +14 ¶ And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: +15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. +16 ¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. +17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. +18 ¶ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. +19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. +20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. +21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. +22 ¶ After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. +23 ¶ And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. +24 For John was not yet cast into prison. +25 ¶ Then there arose a question between __some__ of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. +26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all __men__ come to him. +27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. +28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. +29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. +30 He must increase, but I __must__ decrease. +31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. +32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony. +33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true. +34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure __unto__ __him__. +35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. +36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 WHEN therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, +2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) +3 He left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee. +4 And he must needs go through Samaria. +5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. +6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with __his__ journey, sat thus on the well: __and__ it was about the sixth hour. +7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. +8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) +9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. +10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. +11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? +12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? +13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: +14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. +15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. +16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. +17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: +18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. +19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. +20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. +21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. +22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. +23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. +24 God __is__ a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship __him__ in spirit and in truth. +25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. +26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am __he__. +27 ¶ And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? +28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, +29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? +30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. +31 ¶ In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat. +32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. +33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him __ought__ to eat? +34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. +35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and __then__ cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. +36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. +37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. +38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. +39 ¶ And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. +40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. +41 And many more believed because of his own word; +42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard __him__ ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. +43 ¶ Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. +44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. +45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast. +46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. +47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judæa into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. +48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. +49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. +50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. +51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told __him__, saying, Thy son liveth. +52 Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. +53 So the father knew that __it__ __was__ at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house. +54 This __is__ again the second miracle __that__ Jesus did, when he was come out of Judæa into Galilee. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AFTER this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. +2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep __market__ a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. +3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. +4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. +5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. +6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time __in__ __that__ __case__, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? +7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. +8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. +9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath. +10 ¶ The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry __thy__ bed. +11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk. +12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk? +13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in __that__ place. +14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. +15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. +16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. +17 ¶ But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. +18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. +19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. +20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. +21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth __them;__ even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. +22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: +23 That all __men__ should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. +24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. +25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. +26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; +27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. +28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, +29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. +30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. +31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. +32 ¶ There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true. +33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth. +34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved. +35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. +36 ¶ But I have greater witness than __that__ of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me. +37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. +38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. +39 ¶ Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. +40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. +41 I receive not honour from men. +42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. +43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. +44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that __cometh__ from God only? +45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is __one__ that accuseth you, __even__ Moses, in whom ye trust. +46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. +47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AFTER these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is __the__ __sea__ of Tiberias. +2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. +3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. +4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh. +5 ¶ When Jesus then lifted up __his__ eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? +6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do. +7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little. +8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, +9 There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? +10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. +11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. +12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. +13 Therefore they gathered __them__ together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. +14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. +15 ¶ When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. +16 And when even was __now__ come, his disciples went down unto the sea, +17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them. +18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew. +19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid. +20 But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid. +21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went. +22 ¶ The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but __that__ his disciples were gone away alone; +23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) +24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. +25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? +26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. +27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. +28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? +29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. +30 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? +31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. +32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. +33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. +34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. +35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. +36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. +37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. +38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. +39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. +40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. +41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. +42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? +43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. +44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. +45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. +46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. +47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. +48 I am that bread of life. +49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. +50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. +51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. +52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us __his__ flesh to eat? +53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. +54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. +55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. +56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. +57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. +58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. +59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. +60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard __this__, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? +61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? +62 __What__ and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? +63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, __they__ are spirit, and __they__ are life. +64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. +65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. +66 ¶ From that __time__ many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. +67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? +68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. +69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. +70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? +71 He spake of Judas Iscariot __the__ __son__ of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 AFTER these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. +2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. +3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judæa, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. +4 For __there__ __is__ no man __that__ doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world. +5 For neither did his brethren believe in him. +6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. +7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. +8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come. +9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode __still__ in Galilee. +10 ¶ But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. +11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? +12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people. +13 Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews. +14 ¶ Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. +15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? +16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. +17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or __whether__ I speak of myself. +18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. +19 Did not Moses give you the law, and __yet__ none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me? +20 The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee? +21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. +22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. +23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? +24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. +25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? +26 But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ? +27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is. +28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. +29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me. +30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. +31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this __man__ hath done? +32 ¶ The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. +33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and __then__ I go unto him that sent me. +34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find __me:__ and where I am, __thither__ ye cannot come. +35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? +36 What __manner__ __of__ saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find __me:__ and where I am, __thither__ ye cannot come? +37 In the last day, that great __day__ of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. +38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. +39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet __given;__ because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) +40 ¶ Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. +41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? +42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? +43 So there was a division among the people because of him. +44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him. +45 ¶ Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? +46 The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. +47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? +48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? +49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. +50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) +51 Doth our law judge __any__ man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? +52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. +53 And every man went unto his own house. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 JESUS went unto the mount of Olives. +2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. +3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, +4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. +5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? +6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with __his__ finger wrote on the ground, __as__ __though__ __he__ __heard__ __them__ __not__. +7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. +8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. +9 And they which heard __it__, being convicted by __their__ __own__ conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, __even__ unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. +10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? +11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. +12 ¶ Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. +13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true. +14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, __yet__ my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. +15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. +16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. +17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. +18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me. +19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. +20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come. +21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. +22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. +23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. +24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am __he__, ye shall die in your sins. +25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even __the__ __same__ that I said unto you from the beginning. +26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. +27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father. +28 Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am __he__, and __that__ I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. +29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. +30 As he spake these words, many believed on him. +31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, __then__ are ye my disciples indeed; +32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. +33 ¶ They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? +34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. +35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: __but__ the Son abideth ever. +36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. +37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. +38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. +39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. +40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. +41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, __even__ God. +42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. +43 Why do ye not understand my speech? __even__ because ye cannot hear my word. +44 Ye are of __your__ father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. +45 And because I tell __you__ the truth, ye believe me not. +46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? +47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear __them__ not, because ye are not of God. +48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? +49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. +50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. +51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. +52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. +53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? +54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: +55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. +56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw __it__, and was glad. +57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? +58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. +59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND as __Jesus__ passed by, he saw a man which was blind from __his__ birth. +2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? +3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. +4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. +5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. +6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, +7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. +8 ¶ The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? +9 Some said, This is he: others __said__, He is like him: __but__ he said, I am __he__. +10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? +11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight. +12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not. +13 ¶ They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. +14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. +15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. +16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. +17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. +18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. +19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? +20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: +21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. +22 These __words__ spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. +23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. +24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. +25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner __or__ __no__, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. +26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? +27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear __it__ again? will ye also be his disciples? +28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. +29 We know that God spake unto Moses: __as__ __for__ this __fellow__, we know not from whence he is. +30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and __yet__ he hath opened mine eyes. +31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. +32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. +33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. +34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. +35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? +36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? +37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. +38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. +39 ¶ And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. +40 And __some__ of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? +41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 VERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. +2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. +3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. +4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. +5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. +6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. +7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. +8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. +9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. +10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have __it__ more abundantly. +11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. +12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. +13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. +14 I am the good shepherd, and know my __sheep__, and am known of mine. +15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. +16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, __and__ one shepherd. +17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. +18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. +19 ¶ There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. +20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? +21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? +22 ¶ And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. +23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. +24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. +25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. +26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. +27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: +28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any __man__ pluck them out of my hand. +29 My Father, which gave __them__ me, is greater than all; and no __man__ is able to pluck __them__ out of my Father's hand. +30 I and __my__ Father are one. +31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. +32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? +33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. +34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? +35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; +36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? +37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. +38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father __is__ in me, and I in him. +39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, +40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. +41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true. +42 And many believed on him there. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 NOW a certain __man__ was sick, __named__ Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. +2 (It was __that__ Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) +3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. +4 When Jesus heard __that__, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. +5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. +6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. +7 Then after that saith he to __his__ disciples, Let us go into Judæa again. +8 __His__ disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? +9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. +10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. +11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. +12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. +13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. +14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. +15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him. +16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. +17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had __lain__ in the grave four days already. +18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off: +19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. +20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat __still__ in the house. +21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. +22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give __it__ thee. +23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. +24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. +25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: +26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? +27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. +28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee. +29 As soon as she heard __that__, she arose quickly, and came unto him. +30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him. +31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there. +32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. +33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, +34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. +35 Jesus wept. +36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! +37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? +38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. +39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been __dead__ four days. +40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? +41 Then they took away the stone __from__ __the__ __place__ where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up __his__ eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. +42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said __it__, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. +43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. +44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. +45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. +46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done. +47 ¶ Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. +48 If we let him thus alone, all __men__ will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. +49 And one of them, __named__ Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, +50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. +51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; +52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. +53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death. +54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples. +55 ¶ And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves. +56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast? +57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew __it__, that they might take him. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 THEN Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. +2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. +3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. +4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's __son__, which should betray him, +5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? +6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. +7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. +8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. +9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. +10 ¶ But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; +11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus. +12 ¶ On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, +13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed __is__ the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. +14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, +15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt. +16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and __that__ they had done these things unto him. +17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record. +18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle. +19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him. +20 ¶ And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: +21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. +22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. +23 ¶ And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. +24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. +25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. +26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will __my__ Father honour. +27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. +28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, __saying__, I have both glorified __it__, and will glorify __it__ again. +29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard __it__, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. +30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. +31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. +32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all __men__ unto me. +33 This he said, signifying what death he should die. +34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man? +35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. +36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. +37 ¶ But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: +38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? +39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, +40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with __their__ eyes, nor understand with __their__ heart, and be converted, and I should heal them. +41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. +42 ¶ Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess __him__, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: +43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. +44 ¶ Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. +45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. +46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. +47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. +48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. +49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. +50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 NOW before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. +2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's __son__, to betray him; +3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; +4 He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. +5 After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe __them__ with the towel wherewith he was girded. +6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? +7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. +8 Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. +9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also __my__ hands and __my__ head. +10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash __his__ feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. +11 For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. +12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? +13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for __so__ I am. +14 If I then, __your__ Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. +15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. +16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. +17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. +18 ¶ I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. +19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am __he__. +20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. +21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. +22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. +23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. +24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. +25 He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? +26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped __it__. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave __it__ to Judas Iscariot, __the__ __son__ of Simon. +27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. +28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. +29 For some __of__ __them__ thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy __those__ __things__ that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. +30 He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. +31 ¶ Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. +32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. +33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you. +34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. +35 By this shall all __men__ know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. +36 ¶ Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. +37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake. +38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 LET not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. +2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if __it__ __were__ not __so__, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. +3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, __there__ ye may be also. +4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. +5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? +6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. +7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. +8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. +9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou __then__, Shew us the Father? +10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. +11 Believe me that I __am__ in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. +12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater __works__ than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. +13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. +14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do __it__. +15 ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments. +16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; +17 __Even__ the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. +18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. +19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. +20 At that day ye shall know that I __am__ in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. +21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. +22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? +23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. +24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. +25 These things have I spoken unto you, being __yet__ present with you. +26 But the Comforter, __which__ __is__ the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. +27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. +28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come __again__ unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. +29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe. +30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. +31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. +2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every __branch__ that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. +3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. +4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. +5 I am the vine, ye __are__ the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. +6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast __them__ into the fire, and they are burned. +7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. +8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. +9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. +10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. +11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and __that__ your joy might be full. +12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. +13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. +14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. +15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. +16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and __that__ your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. +17 These things I command you, that ye love one another. +18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before __it__ __hated__ you. +19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. +20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. +21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. +22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. +23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. +24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. +25 But __this__ __cometh__ __to__ __pass__, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. +26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, __even__ the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: +27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 THESE things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. +2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. +3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. +4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you. +5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou? +6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. +7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. +8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: +9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; +10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; +11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. +12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. +13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, __that__ shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. +14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew __it__ unto you. +15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew __it__ unto you. +16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father. +17 Then said __some__ of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? +18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. +19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? +20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. +21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. +22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. +23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give __it__ you. +24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. +25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. +26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: +27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. +28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. +29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. +30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God. +31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? +32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. +33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 THESE words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: +2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. +3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. +4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. +5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. +6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. +7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. +8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received __them__, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. +9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. +10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. +11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we __are__. +12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. +13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. +14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. +15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. +16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. +17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. +18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. +19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. +20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; +21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, __art__ in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. +22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: +23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. +24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. +25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. +26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare __it:__ that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 WHEN Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. +2 And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. +3 Judas then, having received a band __of__ __men__ and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. +4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? +5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am __he__. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. +6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am __he__, they went backward, and fell to the ground. +7 Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. +8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am __he:__ if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way: +9 That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none. +10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus. +11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? +12 Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him, +13 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year. +14 Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people. +15 ¶ And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and __so__ __did__ another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. +16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter. +17 Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also __one__ of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not. +18 And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself. +19 ¶ The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine. +20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. +21 Why askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said. +22 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? +23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me? +24 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. +25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore unto him, Art not thou also __one__ of his disciples? He denied __it__, and said, I am not. +26 One of the servants of the high priest, being __his__ kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him? +27 Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew. +28 ¶ Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. +29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? +30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. +31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death: +32 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die. +33 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? +34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? +35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? +36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. +37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. +38 Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault __at__ __all__. +39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? +40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 THEN Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged __him__. +2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put __it__ on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, +3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. +4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. +5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And __Pilate__ saith unto them, Behold the man! +6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify __him__, crucify __him__. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify __him:__ for I find no fault in him. +7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. +8 ¶ When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid; +9 And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. +10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee? +11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power __at__ __all__ against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. +12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Cæsar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Cæsar. +13 ¶ When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha. +14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! +15 But they cried out, Away with __him__, away with __him__, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Cæsar. +16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led __him__ away. +17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called __the__ __place__ of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: +18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. +19 ¶ And Pilate wrote a title, and put __it__ on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. +20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, __and__ Greek, __and__ Latin. +21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. +22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. +23 ¶ Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also __his__ coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. +24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did. +25 ¶ Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the __wife__ of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. +26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! +27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own __home__. +28 ¶ After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. +29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put __it__ upon hyssop, and put __it__ to his mouth. +30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. +31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and __that__ they might be taken away. +32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. +33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: +34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. +35 And he that saw __it__ bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. +36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. +37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. +38 ¶ And after this Joseph of Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave __him__ leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. +39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound __weight__. +40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. +41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. +42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation __day;__ for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 THE first __day__ of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. +2 Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him. +3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the sepulchre. +4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. +5 And he stooping down, __and__ __looking__ __in__, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. +6 Then cometh Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, +7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself. +8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. +9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. +10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. +11 ¶ But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, __and__ __looked__ into the sepulchre, +12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. +13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. +14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. +15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. +16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. +17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and __to__ my God, and your God. +18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and __that__ he had spoken these things unto her. +19 ¶ Then the same day at evening, being the first __day__ of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace __be__ unto you. +20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them __his__ hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. +21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace __be__ unto you: as __my__ Father hath sent me, even so send I you. +22 And when he had said this, he breathed on __them__, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: +23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; __and__ whose soever __sins__ ye retain, they are retained. +24 ¶ But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. +25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. +26 ¶ And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: __then__ came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace __be__ unto you. +27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust __it__ into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. +28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. +29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed __are__ they that have not seen, and __yet__ have believed. +30 ¶ And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: +31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AFTER these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he __himself__. +2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the __sons__ of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. +3 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing. +4 But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. +5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. +6 And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. +7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt __his__ fisher's coat __unto__ __him__, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea. +8 And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes. +9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread. +10 Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught. +11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken. +12 Jesus saith unto them, Come __and__ dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord. +13 Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise. +14 This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead. +15 ¶ So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, __son__ of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. +16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, __son__ of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. +17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, __son__ of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep. +18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry __thee__ whither thou wouldest not. +19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me. +20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? +21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what __shall__ this man __do?__ +22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what __is__ __that__ to thee? follow thou me. +23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what __is__ __that__ to thee? +24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. +25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. +:::SET BOOK Acts +:::SET TITLE The Acts of the Apostles +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, +2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: +3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: +4 And, being assembled together with __them__, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, __saith__ __he__, ye have heard of me. +5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. +6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? +7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. +8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. +9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. +10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; +11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. +12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey. +13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James __the__ __son__ of Alphæus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas __the__ __brother__ of James. +14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. +15 ¶ And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,) +16 Men __and__ brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. +17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry. +18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. +19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood. +20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take. +21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, +22 Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection. +23 And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. +24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all __men__, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, +25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. +26 And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. +2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. +3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. +4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. +5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. +6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. +7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilæans? +8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? +9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judæa, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, +10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, +11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. +12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? +13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine. +14 ¶ But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judæa, and all __ye__ that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: +15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is __but__ the third hour of the day. +16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; +17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: +18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: +19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: +20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: +21 And it shall come to pass, __that__ whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. +22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: +23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: +24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. +25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: +26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: +27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. +28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. +29 Men __and__ brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. +30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; +31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption. +32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. +33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. +34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The $$L{\footnotesize ORD}$$ said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, +35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool. +36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. +37 ¶ Now when they heard __this__, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men __and__ brethren, what shall we do? +38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. +39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, __even__ as many as the Lord our God shall call. +40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. +41 ¶ Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added __unto__ __them__ about three thousand souls. +42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. +43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. +44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common; +45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all __men__, as every man had need. +46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, +47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 NOW Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, __being__ the ninth __hour__. +2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; +3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. +4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. +5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. +6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. +7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted __him__ up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength. +8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. +9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God: +10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. +11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. +12 ¶ And when Peter saw __it__, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? +13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let __him__ go. +14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; +15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. +16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. +17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did __it__, as __did__ also your rulers. +18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. +19 ¶ Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; +20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: +21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. +22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. +23 And it shall come to pass, __that__ every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. +24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. +25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. +26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AND as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, +2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. +3 And they laid hands on them, and put __them__ in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide. +4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. +5 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes, +6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. +7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this? +8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, +9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; +10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, __even__ by him doth this man stand here before you whole. +11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. +12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. +13 ¶ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. +14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. +15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, +16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them __is__ manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny __it__. +17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. +18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. +19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. +20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. +21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all __men__ glorified God for that which was done. +22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed. +23 ¶ And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. +24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou __art__ God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: +25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? +26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. +27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, +28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. +29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, +30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. +31 ¶ And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. +32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any __of__ __them__ that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. +33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. +34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, +35 And laid __them__ down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. +36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, __and__ of the country of Cyprus, +37 Having land, sold __it__, and brought the money, and laid __it__ at the apostles' feet. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 BUT a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, +2 And kept back __part__ of the price, his wife also being privy __to__ __it__, and brought a certain part, and laid __it__ at the apostles' feet. +3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back __part__ of the price of the land? +4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. +5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. +6 And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried __him__ out, and buried __him__. +7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. +8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. +9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband __are__ at the door, and shall carry thee out. +10 Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying __her__ forth, buried __her__ by her husband. +11 And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things. +12 ¶ And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. +13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. +14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) +15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid __them__ on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. +16 There came also a multitude __out__ of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one. +17 ¶ Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, +18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. +19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, +20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. +21 And when they heard __that__, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. +22 But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told, +23 Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within. +24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow. +25 Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people. +26 Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. +27 And when they had brought them, they set __them__ before the council: and the high priest asked them, +28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. +29 ¶ Then Peter and the __other__ apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. +30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. +31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand __to__ __be__ a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. +32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and __so__ __is__ also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him. +33 ¶ When they heard __that__, they were cut __to__ __the__ __heart__, and took counsel to slay them. +34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space; +35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men. +36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought. +37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, __even__ as many as obeyed him, were dispersed. +38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: +39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. +40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten __them__, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. +41 ¶ And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. +42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. +2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples __unto__ __them__, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. +3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. +4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. +5 ¶ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: +6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid __their__ hands on them. +7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. +8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. +9 ¶ Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called __the__ __synagogue__ of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. +10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. +11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and __against__ God. +12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon __him__, and caught him, and brought __him__ to the council, +13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: +14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. +15 And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 THEN said the high priest, Are these things so? +2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, +3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. +4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. +5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not __so__ __much__ __as__ to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when __as__ __yet__ he had no child. +6 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat __them__ evil four hundred years. +7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place. +8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so __Abraham__ begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac __begat__ Jacob; and Jacob __begat__ the twelve patriarchs. +9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him, +10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. +11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. +12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. +13 And at the second __time__ Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh. +14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to __him__, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. +15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers, +16 And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor __the__ __father__ of Sychem. +17 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, +18 Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. +19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live. +20 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: +21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. +22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds. +23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. +24 And seeing one __of__ __them__ suffer wrong, he defended __him__, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: +25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not. +26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? +27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? +28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday? +29 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons. +30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. +31 When Moses saw __it__, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold __it__, the voice of the Lord came unto him, +32 __Saying__, I __am__ the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. +33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground. +34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. +35 This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send __to__ __be__ a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. +36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. +37 ¶ This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. +38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and __with__ our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: +39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust __him__ from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, +40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for __as__ __for__ this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. +41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. +42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices __by__ __the__ __space__ __of__ forty years in the wilderness? +43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. +44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. +45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; +46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. +47 But Solomon built him an house. +48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, +49 Heaven __is__ my throne, and earth __is__ my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what __is__ the place of my rest? +50 Hath not my hand made all these things? +51 ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers __did__, so __do__ ye. +52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: +53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept __it__. +54 ¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with __their__ teeth. +55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, +56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. +57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, +58 And cast __him__ out of the city, and stoned __him:__ and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. +59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon __God__, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. +60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles. +2 And devout men carried Stephen __to__ __his__ __burial__, and made great lamentation over him. +3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed __them__ to prison. +4 Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. +5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. +6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. +7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed __with__ __them:__ and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. +8 And there was great joy in that city. +9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: +10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. +11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. +12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. +13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done. +14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: +15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: +16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) +17 Then laid they __their__ hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. +18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, +19 Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. +20 But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. +21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God. +22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. +23 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and __in__ the bond of iniquity. +24 Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me. +25 And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans. +26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. +27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, +28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. +29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. +30 And Philip ran thither to __him__, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? +31 And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. +32 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: +33 In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. +34 And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? +35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. +36 And as they went on __their__ way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, __here__ __is__ water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? +37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. +38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. +39 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. +40 But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, +2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. +3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: +4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? +5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: __it__ __is__ hard for thee to kick against the pricks. +6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord __said__ unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. +7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. +8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought __him__ into Damascus. +9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. +10 ¶ And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I __am__ __here__, Lord. +11 And the Lord __said__ unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for __one__ called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, +12 And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting __his__ hand on him, that he might receive his sight. +13 Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: +14 And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. +15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: +16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. +17 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, __even__ Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. +18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized. +19 And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. +20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. +21 But all that heard __him__ were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests? +22 But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ. +23 ¶ And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him: +24 But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him. +25 Then the disciples took him by night, and let __him__ down by the wall in a basket. +26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. +27 But Barnabas took him, and brought __him__ to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. +28 And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem. +29 And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him. +30 __Which__ when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Cæsarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus. +31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judæa and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied. +32 ¶ And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all __quarters__, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda. +33 And there he found a certain man named Æneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy. +34 And Peter said unto him, Æneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately. +35 And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. +36 ¶ Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did. +37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid __her__ in an upper chamber. +38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring __him__ that he would not delay to come to them. +39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them. +40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning __him__ to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. +41 And he gave her __his__ hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive. +42 And it was known throughout all Joppa; and many believed in the Lord. +43 And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 THERE was a certain man in Cæsarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian __band__, +2 __A__ devout __man__, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. +3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. +4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. +5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for __one__ Simon, whose surname is Peter: +6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do. +7 And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually; +8 And when he had declared all __these__ things unto them, he sent them to Joppa. +9 ¶ On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: +10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, +11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: +12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. +13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. +14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. +15 And the voice __spake__ unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, __that__ call not thou common. +16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven. +17 Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate, +18 And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there. +19 ¶ While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. +20 Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them. +21 Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what __is__ the cause wherefore ye are come? +22 And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee. +23 Then called he them in, and lodged __them__. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him. +24 And the morrow after they entered into Cæsarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends. +25 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped __him__. +26 But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man. +27 And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together. +28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. +29 Therefore came I __unto__ __you__ without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me? +30 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, +31 And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God. +32 Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of __one__ Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee. +33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God. +34 ¶ Then Peter opened __his__ mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: +35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. +36 The word which __God__ sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) +37 That word, __I__ __say__, ye know, which was published throughout all Judæa, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; +38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. +39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: +40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; +41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, __even__ to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. +42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God __to__ __be__ the Judge of quick and dead. +43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. +44 ¶ While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. +45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. +46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, +47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? +48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND the apostles and brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. +2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, +3 Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. +4 But Peter rehearsed __the__ __matter__ from the beginning, and expounded __it__ by order unto them, saying, +5 I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me: +6 Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. +7 And I heard a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter; slay and eat. +8 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth. +9 But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, __that__ call not thou common. +10 And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven. +11 And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Cæsarea unto me. +12 And the spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house: +13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter; +14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved. +15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. +16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. +17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as __he__ __did__ unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God? +18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life. +19 ¶ Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. +20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. +21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord. +22 ¶ Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch. +23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. +24 For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord. +25 Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: +26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. +27 ¶ And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch. +28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar. +29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judæa: +30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 NOW about that time Herod the king stretched forth __his__ hands to vex certain of the church. +2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. +3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) +4 And when he had apprehended him, he put __him__ in prison, and delivered __him__ to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. +5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. +6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. +7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon __him__, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from __his__ hands. +8 And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. +9 And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision. +10 When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. +11 And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and __from__ all the expectation of the people of the Jews. +12 And when he had considered __the__ __thing__, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying. +13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda. +14 And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate. +15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel. +16 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened __the__ __door__, and saw him, they were astonished. +17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place. +18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. +19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that __they__ should be put to death. And he went down from Judæa to Cæsarea, and __there__ abode. +20 ¶ And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's __country__. +21 And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. +22 And the people gave a shout, __saying__, __It__ __is__ the voice of a god, and not of a man. +23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. +24 ¶ But the word of God grew and multiplied. +25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled __their__ ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 NOW there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. +2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. +3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid __their__ hands on them, they sent __them__ away. +4 ¶ So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. +5 And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to __their__ minister. +6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name __was__ Bar-jesus: +7 Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. +8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. +9 Then Saul, (who also __is__ __called__ Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, +10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, __thou__ child of the devil, __thou__ enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? +11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord __is__ upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand. +12 Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord. +13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. +14 ¶ But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. +15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, __Ye__ men __and__ brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. +16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with __his__ hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. +17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. +18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. +19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot. +20 And after that he gave __unto__ __them__ judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. +21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. +22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the __son__ of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. +23 Of this man's seed hath God according to __his__ promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus: +24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. +25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not __he__. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of __his__ feet I am not worthy to loose. +26 Men __and__ brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. +27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled __them__ in condemning __him__. +28 And though they found no cause of death __in__ __him__, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. +29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took __him__ down from the tree, and laid __him__ in a sepulchre. +30 But God raised him from the dead: +31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. +32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, +33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. +34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, __now__ no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. +35 Wherefore he saith also in another __psalm__, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. +36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: +37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption. +38 ¶ Be it known unto you therefore, men __and__ brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: +39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. +40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets; +41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. +42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. +43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. +44 ¶ And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. +45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. +46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. +47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, __saying__, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. +48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. +49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. +50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. +51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium. +52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AND it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed. +2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. +3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. +4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles. +5 And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use __them__ despitefully, and to stone them, +6 They were ware of __it__, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about: +7 And there they preached the gospel. +8 ¶ And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: +9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, +10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. +11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. +12 And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. +13 Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. +14 __Which__ when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard __of__, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, +15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: +16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. +17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. +18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them. +19 ¶ And there came thither __certain__ Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew __him__ out of the city, supposing he had been dead. +20 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. +21 And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and __to__ Iconium, and Antioch, +22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, __and__ exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. +23 And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed. +24 And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia. +25 And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia: +26 And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled. +27 And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles. +28 And there they abode long time with the disciples. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AND certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, __and__ __said__, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. +2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. +3 And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. +4 And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and __of__ the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them. +5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command __them__ to keep the law of Moses. +6 ¶ And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. +7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men __and__ brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. +8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as __he__ __did__ unto us; +9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. +10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? +11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. +12 ¶ Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. +13 ¶ And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men __and__ brethren, hearken unto me: +14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. +15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, +16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: +17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. +18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. +19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: +20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and __from__ fornication, and __from__ things strangled, and __from__ blood. +21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day. +22 Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; __namely__, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: +23 And they wrote __letters__ by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and brethren __send__ greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia: +24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, __Ye__ __must__ be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no __such__ commandment: +25 It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, +26 Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. +27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell __you__ the same things by mouth. +28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; +29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. +30 So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: +31 __Which__ when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. +32 And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed __them__. +33 And after they had tarried __there__ a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles. +34 Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still. +35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. +36 ¶ And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, __and__ __see__ how they do. +37 And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. +38 But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. +39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; +40 And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. +41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 THEN came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father __was__ a Greek: +2 Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. +3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek. +4 And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. +5 And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily. +6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, +7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. +8 And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas. +9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. +10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. +11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next __day__ to Neapolis; +12 And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, __and__ a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days. +13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted __thither__. +14 ¶ And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard __us:__ whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. +15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought __us__, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide __there__. And she constrained us. +16 ¶ And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: +17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. +18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. +19 ¶ And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew __them__ into the marketplace unto the rulers, +20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, +21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. +22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat __them__. +23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast __them__ into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: +24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. +25 ¶ And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. +26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. +27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. +28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here. +29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, +30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? +31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. +32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. +33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed __their__ stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. +34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. +35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. +36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace. +37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast __us__ into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. +38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans. +39 And they came and besought them, and brought __them__ out, and desired __them__ to depart out of the city. +40 And they went out of the prison, and entered into __the__ __house__ __of__ Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 NOW when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: +2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, +3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. +4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. +5 ¶ But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. +6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; +7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, __one__ Jesus. +8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things. +9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go. +10 ¶ And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming __thither__ went into the synagogue of the Jews. +11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. +12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few. +13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people. +14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still. +15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed. +16 ¶ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. +17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. +18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. +19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, __is?__ +20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. +21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) +22 ¶ Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, __Ye__ men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. +23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. +24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; +25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; +26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; +27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: +28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. +29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. +30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: +31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by __that__ man whom he hath ordained; __whereof__ he hath given assurance unto all __men__, in that he hath raised him from the dead. +32 ¶ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this __matter__. +33 So Paul departed from among them. +34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which __was__ Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AFTER these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; +2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. +3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. +4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. +5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews __that__ Jesus __was__ Christ. +6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook __his__ raiment, and said unto them, Your blood __be__ upon your own heads; I __am__ clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. +7 ¶ And he departed thence, and entered into a certain __man__'__s__ house, named Justus, __one__ that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. +8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. +9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: +10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. +11 And he continued __there__ a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. +12 ¶ And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, +13 Saying, This __fellow__ persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. +14 And when Paul was now about to open __his__ mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O __ye__ Jews, reason would that I should bear with you: +15 But if it be a question of words and names, and __of__ your law, look ye __to__ __it;__ for I will be no judge of such __matters__. +16 And he drave them from the judgment seat. +17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat __him__ before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. +18 ¶ And Paul __after__ __this__ tarried __there__ yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn __his__ head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. +19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews. +20 When they desired __him__ to tarry longer time with them, he consented not; +21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus. +22 And when he had landed at Cæsarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch. +23 And after he had spent some time __there__, he departed, and went over __all__ the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. +24 ¶ And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, __and__ mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. +25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. +26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto __them__, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. +27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace: +28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, __and__ __that__ publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, +2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. +3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. +4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. +5 When they heard __this__, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. +6 And when Paul had laid __his__ hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied. +7 And all the men were about twelve. +8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. +9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. +10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. +11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: +12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them. +13 ¶ Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. +14 And there were seven sons of __one__ Sceva, a Jew, __and__ chief of the priests, which did so. +15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? +16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. +17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. +18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. +19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all __men:__ and they counted the price of them, and found __it__ fifty thousand __pieces__ of silver. +20 So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed. +21 ¶ After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. +22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. +23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. +24 For a certain __man__ named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen; +25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. +26 Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: +27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth. +28 And when they heard __these__ __sayings__, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great __is__ Diana of the Ephesians. +29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre. +30 And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. +31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring __him__ that he would not adventure himself into the theatre. +32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together. +33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people. +34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great __is__ Diana of the Ephesians. +35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, __Ye__ men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the __image__ which fell down from Jupiter? +36 Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly. +37 For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess. +38 Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another. +39 But if ye inquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly. +40 For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse. +41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto __him__ the disciples, and embraced __them__, and departed for to go into Macedonia. +2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece, +3 And __there__ abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia. +4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. +5 These going before tarried for us at Troas. +6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. +7 And upon the first __day__ of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. +8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. +9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. +10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing __him__ said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. +11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. +12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted. +13 ¶ And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot. +14 And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene. +15 And we sailed thence, and came the next __day__ over against Chios; and the next __day__ we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next __day__ we came to Miletus. +16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. +17 ¶ And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church. +18 And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, +19 Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: +20 __And__ how I kept back nothing that was profitable __unto__ __you__, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, +21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. +22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: +23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. +24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. +25 And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. +26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I __am__ pure from the blood of all __men__. +27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. +28 ¶ Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. +29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. +30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. +31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. +32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. +33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel. +34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. +35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. +36 ¶ And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. +37 And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, +38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course unto Coos, and the __day__ following unto Rhodes, and from thence unto Patara: +2 And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth. +3 Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden. +4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. +5 And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till __we__ __were__ out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed. +6 And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again. +7 And when we had finished __our__ course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day. +8 And the next __day__ we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Cæsarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was __one__ of the seven; and abode with him. +9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. +10 And as we tarried __there__ many days, there came down from Judæa a certain prophet, named Agabus. +11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver __him__ into the hands of the Gentiles. +12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. +13 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. +14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done. +15 And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem. +16 There went with us also __certain__ of the disciples of Cæsarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge. +17 And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly. +18 And the __day__ following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present. +19 And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry. +20 And when they heard __it__, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law: +21 And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise __their__ children, neither to walk after the customs. +22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come. +23 Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them; +24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave __their__ heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but __that__ thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law. +25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written __and__ concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from __things__ offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication. +26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them. +27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, +28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all __men__ every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. +29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) +30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. +31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. +32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul. +33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded __him__ to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done. +34 And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle. +35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people. +36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him. +37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? +38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers? +39 But Paul said, I am a man __which__ __am__ a Jew of Tarsus, __a__ __city__ in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people. +40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto __them__ in the Hebrew tongue, saying, +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 MEN, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence __which__ __I__ __make__ now unto you. +2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,) +3 I am verily a man __which__ __am__ a Jew, born in Tarsus, __a__ __city__ in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, __and__ taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. +4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. +5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished. +6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. +7 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? +8 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. +9 And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. +10 And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do. +11 And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus. +12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt __there__, +13 Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him. +14 And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. +15 For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. +16 And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. +17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance; +18 And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. +19 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee: +20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him. +21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. +22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and __then__ lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a __fellow__ from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. +23 And as they cried out, and cast off __their__ clothes, and threw dust into the air, +24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him. +25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? +26 When the centurion heard __that__, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. +27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. +28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was __free__ born. +29 Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. +30 On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from __his__ bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them. +:::SET CHAPTER 23 +1 AND Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men __and__ brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day. +2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth. +3 Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, __thou__ whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law? +4 And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest? +5 Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people. +6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men __and__ brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. +7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. +8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. +9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes __that__ __were__ of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God. +10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring __him__ into the castle. +11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome. +12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. +13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. +14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul. +15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him. +16 And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul. +17 Then Paul called one of the centurions unto __him__, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him. +18 So he took him, and brought __him__ to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto __him__, and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee. +19 Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went __with__ __him__ aside privately, and asked __him__, What is that thou hast to tell me? +20 And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would inquire somewhat of him more perfectly. +21 But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee. +22 So the chief captain __then__ let the young man depart, and charged __him__, __See__ __thou__ tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me. +23 And he called unto __him__ two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cæsarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night; +24 And provide __them__ beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring __him__ safe unto Felix the governor. +25 And he wrote a letter after this manner: +26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix __sendeth__ greeting. +27 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman. +28 And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council: +29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds. +30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what __they__ __had__ against him. Farewell. +31 Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought __him__ by night to Antipatris. +32 On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle: +33 Who, when they came to Cæsarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him. +34 And when the governor had read __the__ __letter__, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that __he__ __was__ of Cilicia; +35 I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall. +:::SET CHAPTER 24 +1 AND after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and __with__ a certain orator __named__ Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul. +2 And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse __him__, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done unto this nation by thy providence, +3 We accept __it__ always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness. +4 Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words. +5 For we have found this man __a__ pestilent __fellow__, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: +6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. +7 But the chief captain Lysias came __upon__ __us__, and with great violence took __him__ away out of our hands, +8 Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him. +9 And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. +10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself: +11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship. +12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: +13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. +14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: +15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. +16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and __toward__ men. +17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings. +18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. +19 Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me. +20 Or else let these same __here__ say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council, +21 Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day. +22 And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of __that__ way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter. +23 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let __him__ have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him. +24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. +25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. +26 He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him. +27 But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. +:::SET CHAPTER 25 +1 NOW when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Cæsarea to Jerusalem. +2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him, +3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him. +4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Cæsarea, and that he himself would depart shortly __thither__. +5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with __me__, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him. +6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Cæsarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought. +7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove. +8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Cæsar, have I offended any thing at all. +9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me? +10 Then said Paul, I stand at Cæsar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest. +11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar. +12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Cæsar? unto Cæsar shalt thou go. +13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Cæsarea to salute Festus. +14 And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix: +15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed __me__, desiring __to__ __have__ judgment against him. +16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him. +17 Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth. +18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed: +19 But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. +20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked __him__ whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters. +21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Cæsar. +22 Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him. +23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth. +24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and __also__ here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. +25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him. +26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write. +27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes __laid__ against him. +:::SET CHAPTER 26 +1 THEN Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: +2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: +3 Especially __because__ __I__ __know__ thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. +4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; +5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. +6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: +7 Unto which __promise__ our twelve tribes, instantly serving __God__ day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. +8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? +9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. +10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against __them__. +11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled __them__ to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted __them__ even unto strange cities. +12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, +13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. +14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? __it__ __is__ hard for thee to kick against the pricks. +15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. +16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee; +17 Delivering thee from the people, and __from__ the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, +18 To open their eyes, __and__ to turn __them__ from darkness to light, and __from__ the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. +19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: +20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judæa, and __then__ to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. +21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill __me__. +22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: +23 That Christ should suffer, __and__ that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles. +24 And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. +25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. +26 For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. +27 King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest. +28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. +29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds. +30 And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them: +31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds. +32 Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cæsar. +:::SET CHAPTER 27 +1 AND when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto __one__ named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band. +2 And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; __one__ Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us. +3 And the next __day__ we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave __him__ liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself. +4 And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. +5 And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, __a__ __city__ of Lycia. +6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein. +7 And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone; +8 And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city __of__ Lasea. +9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished __them__, +10 And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives. +11 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul. +12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, __and__ __there__ to winter; __which__ __is__ an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. +13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained __their__ purpose, loosing __thence__, they sailed close by Crete. +14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. +15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let __her__ drive. +16 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat: +17 Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. +18 And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next __day__ they lightened the ship; +19 And the third __day__ we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. +20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on __us__, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. +21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. +22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of __any__ __man__'__s__ life among you, but of the ship. +23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, +24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cæsar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee. +25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me. +26 Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island. +27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; +28 And sounded, and found __it__ twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found __it__ fifteen fathoms. +29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. +30 And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, +31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. +32 Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. +33 And while the day was coming on, Paul besought __them__ all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. +34 Wherefore I pray you to take __some__ meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. +35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken __it__, he began to eat. +36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took __some__ meat. +37 And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. +38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea. +39 And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. +40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed __themselves__ unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore. +41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. +42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. +43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from __their__ purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast __themselves__ first __into__ __the__ __sea__, and get to land: +44 And the rest, some on boards, and some on __broken__ __pieces__ of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land. +:::SET CHAPTER 28 +1 AND when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita. +2 And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. +3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid __them__ on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. +4 And when the barbarians saw the __venomous__ beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. +5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. +6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. +7 In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously. +8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. +9 So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: +10 Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded __us__ with such things as were necessary. +11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. +12 And landing at Syracuse, we tarried __there__ three days. +13 And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli: +14 Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome. +15 And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage. +16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him. +17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men __and__ brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. +18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let __me__ go, because there was no cause of death in me. +19 But when the Jews spake against __it__, I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of. +20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see __you__, and to speak with __you:__ because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. +21 And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judæa concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee. +22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against. +23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into __his__ lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and __out__ __of__ the prophets, from morning till evening. +24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. +25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, +26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: +27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with __their__ eyes, and hear with __their__ ears, and understand with __their__ heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. +28 Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and __that__ they will hear it. +29 And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves. +30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, +31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him. +:::SET BOOK Romans +:::SET TITLE The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called __to__ __be__ an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, +2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) +3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; +4 And declared __to__ __be__ the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead: +5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: +6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ: +7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called __to__ __be__ saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. +8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. +9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers; +10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. +11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; +12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me. +13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. +14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. +15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. +16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. +17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. +18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; +19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed __it__ unto them. +20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, __even__ his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: +21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified __him__ not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. +22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, +23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. +24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: +25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. +26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: +27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. +28 And even as they did not like to retain God in __their__ knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; +29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, +30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, +31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: +32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THEREFORE thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. +2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. +3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? +4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? +5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; +6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds: +7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: +8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, +9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; +10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: +11 For there is no respect of persons with God. +12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; +13 (For not the hearers of the law __are__ just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. +14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: +15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and __their__ thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) +16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. +17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, +18 And knowest __his__ will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law; +19 And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, +20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. +21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? +22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? +23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? +24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. +25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. +26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? +27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? +28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither __is__ __that__ circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: +29 But he __is__ a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision __is__ __that__ of the heart, in the spirit, __and__ not in the letter; whose praise __is__ not of men, but of God. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 WHAT advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit __is__ __there__ of circumcision? +2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. +3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? +4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. +5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? __Is__ God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) +6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? +7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? +8 And not __rather__, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. +9 What then? are we better __than__ __they?__ No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; +10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: +11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. +12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. +13 Their throat __is__ an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps __is__ under their lips: +14 Whose mouth __is__ full of cursing and bitterness: +15 Their feet __are__ swift to shed blood: +16 Destruction and misery __are__ in their ways: +17 And the way of peace have they not known: +18 There is no fear of God before their eyes. +19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. +20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law __is__ the knowledge of sin. +21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; +22 Even the righteousness of God __which__ __is__ by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: +23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; +24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: +25 Whom God hath set forth __to__ __be__ a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; +26 To declare, __I__ __say__, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. +27 Where __is__ boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. +28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. +29 __Is__ __he__ the God of the Jews only? __is__ __he__ not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: +30 Seeing __it__ __is__ one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. +31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 WHAT shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? +2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath __whereof__ to glory; but not before God. +3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. +4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. +5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. +6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, +7 __Saying__, Blessed __are__ they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. +8 Blessed __is__ the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. +9 __Cometh__ this blessedness then upon the circumcision __only__, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. +10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. +11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which __he__ __had__ __yet__ being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: +12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which __he__ __had__ being __yet__ uncircumcised. +13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, __was__ not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. +14 For if they which are of the law __be__ heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: +15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, __there__ __is__ no transgression. +16 Therefore __it__ __is__ of faith, that __it__ __might__ __be__ by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, +17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, __even__ God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. +18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. +19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: +20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; +21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. +22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. +23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; +24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; +25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 THEREFORE being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: +2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. +3 And not only __so__, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; +4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope: +5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. +6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. +7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. +8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. +9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. +10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. +11 And not only __so__, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. +12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: +13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. +14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. +15 But not as the offence, so also __is__ the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, __which__ __is__ by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. +16 And not as __it__ __was__ by one that sinned, __so__ __is__ the gift: for the judgment __was__ by one to condemnation, but the free gift __is__ of many offences unto justification. +17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) +18 Therefore as by the offence of one __judgment__ __came__ upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one __the__ __free__ __gift__ __came__ upon all men unto justification of life. +19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. +20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: +21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? +2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? +3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? +4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. +5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also __in__ __the__ __likeness__ of __his__ resurrection: +6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with __him__, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. +7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. +8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: +9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. +10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. +11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. +12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. +13 Neither yield ye your members __as__ instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members __as__ instruments of righteousness unto God. +14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. +15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. +16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? +17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. +18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. +19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. +20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. +21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things __is__ death. +22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. +23 For the wages of sin __is__ death; but the gift of God __is__ eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 KNOW ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? +2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to __her__ husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of __her__ husband. +3 So then if, while __her__ husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. +4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, __even__ to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. +5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. +6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not __in__ the oldness of the letter. +7 What shall we say then? __Is__ the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. +8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin __was__ dead. +9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. +10 And the commandment, which __was__ __ordained__ to life, I found __to__ __be__ unto death. +11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew __me__. +12 Wherefore the law __is__ holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. +13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. +14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. +15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. +16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that __it__ __is__ good. +17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. +18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but __how__ to perform that which is good I find not. +19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. +20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. +21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. +22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: +23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. +24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? +25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 __THERE__ __is__ therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. +2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. +3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: +4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. +5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. +6 For to be carnally minded __is__ death; but to be spiritually minded __is__ life and peace. +7 Because the carnal mind __is__ enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. +8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. +9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. +10 And if Christ __be__ in you, the body __is__ dead because of sin; but the Spirit __is__ life because of righteousness. +11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. +12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. +13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. +14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. +15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. +16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: +17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with __him__, that we may be also glorified together. +18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time __are__ not worthy __to__ __be__ __compared__ with the glory which shall be revealed in us. +19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. +20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected __the__ __same__ in hope, +21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. +22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. +23 And not only __they__, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, __to__ __wit__, the redemption of our body. +24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? +25 But if we hope for that we see not, __then__ do we with patience wait for __it__. +26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. +27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what __is__ the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to __the__ __will__ __of__ God. +28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to __his__ purpose. +29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate __to__ __be__ conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. +30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. +31 What shall we then say to these things? If God __be__ for us, who __can__ __be__ against us? +32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? +33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? __It__ __is__ God that justifieth. +34 Who __is__ he that condemneth? __It__ __is__ Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. +35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? __shall__ tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? +36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. +37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. +38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, +39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 I SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, +2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. +3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: +4 Who are Israelites; to whom __pertaineth__ the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service __of__ __God__, and the promises; +5 Whose __are__ the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ __came__, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. +6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they __are__ not all Israel, which are of Israel: +7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, __are__ __they__ all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. +8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these __are__ not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. +9 For this __is__ the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. +10 And not only __this;__ but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, __even__ by our father Isaac; +11 (For __the__ __children__ being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) +12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. +13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. +14 What shall we say then? __Is__ __there__ unrighteousness with God? God forbid. +15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. +16 So then __it__ __is__ not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. +17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. +18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will __have__ __mercy__, and whom he will he hardeneth. +19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? +20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed __it__, Why hast thou made me thus? +21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? +22 __What__ if God, willing to shew __his__ wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: +23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, +24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? +25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. +26 And it shall come to pass, __that__ in the place where it was said unto them, Ye __are__ not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. +27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: +28 For he will finish the work, and cut __it__ short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. +29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. +30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. +31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. +32 Wherefore? Because __they__ __sought__ __it__ not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; +33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 BRETHREN, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. +2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. +3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. +4 For Christ __is__ the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. +5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. +6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down __from__ __above:__) +7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) +8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, __even__ in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; +9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. +10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. +11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. +12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. +13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. +14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? +15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! +16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? +17 So then faith __cometh__ by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. +18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. +19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by __them__ __that__ __are__ no people, __and__ by a foolish nation I will anger you. +20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. +21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 I SAY then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, __of__ the tribe of Benjamin. +2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, +3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. +4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to __the__ __image__ __of__ Baal. +5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. +6 And if by grace, then __is__ __it__ no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if __it__ __be__ of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. +7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded +8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. +9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: +10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway. +11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but __rather__ through their fall salvation __is__ __come__ unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. +12 Now if the fall of them __be__ the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? +13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: +14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation __them__ __which__ __are__ my flesh, and might save some of them. +15 For if the casting away of them __be__ the reconciling of the world, what __shall__ the receiving __of__ __them__ __be__, but life from the dead? +16 For if the firstfruit __be__ holy, the lump __is__ also __holy:__ and if the root __be__ holy, so __are__ the branches. +17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; +18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. +19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. +20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: +21 For if God spared not the natural branches, __take__ __heed__ lest he also spare not thee. +22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in __his__ goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. +23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. +24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural __branches__, be graffed into their own olive tree? +25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. +26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: +27 For this __is__ my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. +28 As concerning the gospel, __they__ __are__ enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, __they__ __are__ beloved for the fathers' sakes. +29 For the gifts and calling of God __are__ without repentance. +30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief: +31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. +32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. +33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable __are__ his judgments, and his ways past finding out! +34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller? +35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? +36 For of him, and through him, and to him, __are__ all things: to whom __be__ glory for ever. Amen. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, __which__ __is__ your reasonable service. +2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what __is__ that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. +3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think __of__ __himself__ more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. +4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: +5 So we, __being__ many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. +6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, __let__ __us__ __prophesy__ according to the proportion of faith; +7 Or ministry, __let__ __us__ __wait__ on __our__ ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; +8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, __let__ __him__ __do__ __it__ with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. +9 __Let__ love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. +10 __Be__ kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; +11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; +12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; +13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. +14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. +15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. +16 __Be__ of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. +17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. +18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. +19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but __rather__ give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance __is__ mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. +20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. +21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. +2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. +3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: +4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to __execute__ wrath upon him that doeth evil. +5 Wherefore __ye__ must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. +6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. +7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute __is__ __due;__ custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. +8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. +9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if __there__ __be__ any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. +10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love __is__ the fulfilling of the law. +11 And that, knowing the time, that now __it__ __is__ high time to awake out of sleep: for now __is__ our salvation nearer than when we believed. +12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. +13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. +14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to __fulfil__ the lusts __thereof__. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 HIM that is weak in the faith receive ye, __but__ not to doubtful disputations. +2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. +3 Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. +4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. +5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day __alike__. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. +6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth __it__ unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard __it__. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. +7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. +8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. +9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. +10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. +11 For it is written, __As__ I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. +12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. +13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in __his__ brother's way. +14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that __there__ __is__ nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him __it__ __is__ unclean. +15 But if thy brother be grieved with __thy__ meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. +16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of: +17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. +18 For he that in these things serveth Christ __is__ acceptable to God, and approved of men. +19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. +20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed __are__ pure; but __it__ __is__ evil for that man who eateth with offence. +21 __It__ __is__ good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor __any__ __thing__ whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. +22 Hast thou faith? have __it__ to thyself before God. Happy __is__ he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. +23 And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because __he__ __eateth__ not of faith: for whatsoever __is__ not of faith is sin. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 WE then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. +2 Let every one of us please __his__ neighbour for __his__ good to edification. +3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. +4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. +5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: +6 That ye may with one mind __and__ one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. +7 Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God. +8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises __made__ unto the fathers: +9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for __his__ mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. +10 And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people. +11 And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people. +12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust. +13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. +14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. +15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God, +16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. +17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. +18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, +19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. +20 Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: +21 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand. +22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you. +23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you; +24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your __company__. +25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. +26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem. +27 It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things. +28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain. +29 And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. +30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in __your__ prayers to God for me; +31 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judæa; and that my service which __I__ __have__ for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; +32 That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. +33 Now the God of peace __be__ with you all. Amen. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 I COMMEND unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: +2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also. +3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: +4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. +5 Likewise __greet__ the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epænetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ. +6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us. +7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me. +8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. +9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. +10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus' __household__. +11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the __household__ of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. +12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. +13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. +14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them. +15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints which are with them. +16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. +17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. +18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. +19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all __men__. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. +20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with you. Amen. +21 Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. +22 I Tertius, who wrote __this__ epistle, salute you in the Lord. +23 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother. +24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with you all. Amen. +25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, +26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: +27 To God only wise, __be__ glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. +> ¶     Written to the Romans from Corinthus, __and__ __sent__ by Phebe servant of the church at Cenchrea. +:::SET BOOK 1 Corinthians +:::SET TITLE The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, called __to__ __be__ an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes __our__ brother, +2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called __to__ __be__ saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: +3 Grace __be__ unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and __from__ the Lord Jesus Christ. +4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; +5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and __in__ all knowledge; +6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: +7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: +8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, __that__ __ye__ __may__ __be__ blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. +9 God __is__ faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. +10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and __that__ there be no divisions among you; but __that__ ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. +11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them __which__ __are__ __of__ __the__ __house__ of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. +12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. +13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? +14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; +15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. +16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. +17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. +18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. +19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. +20 Where __is__ the wise? where __is__ the scribe? where __is__ the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? +21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. +22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: +23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; +24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. +25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. +26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, __are__ __called:__ +27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; +28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, __yea__, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: +29 That no flesh should glory in his presence. +30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: +31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. +2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. +3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. +4 And my speech and my preaching __was__ not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: +5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. +6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: +7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, __even__ the hidden __wisdom__, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: +8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known __it__, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. +9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. +10 But God hath revealed __them__ unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. +11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. +12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. +13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. +14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know __them__, because they are spiritually discerned. +15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. +16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, __even__ as unto babes in Christ. +2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able __to__ __bear__ __it__, neither yet now are ye able. +3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas __there__ __is__ among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? +4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I __am__ of Apollos; are ye not carnal? +5 Who then is Paul, and who __is__ Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? +6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. +7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. +8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. +9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, __ye__ __are__ God's building. +10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. +11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. +12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; +13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. +14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. +15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. +16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and __that__ the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? +17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which __temple__ ye are. +18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. +19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. +20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. +21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; +22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; +23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ __is__ God's. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 LET a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. +2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. +3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. +4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. +5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. +6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and __to__ Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think __of__ __men__ above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. +7 For who maketh thee to differ __from__ __another?__ and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive __it__, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received __it?__ +8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. +9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. +10 We __are__ fools for Christ's sake, but ye __are__ wise in Christ; we __are__ weak, but ye __are__ strong; ye __are__ honourable, but we __are__ despised. +11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; +12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: +13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, __and__ __are__ the offscouring of all things unto this day. +14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn __you__. +15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet __have__ __ye__ not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. +16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. +17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church. +18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. +19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. +20 For the kingdom of God __is__ not in word, but in power. +21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and __in__ the spirit of meekness? +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 IT is reported commonly __that__ __there__ __is__ fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. +2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. +3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, __concerning__ him that hath so done this deed, +4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, +5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. +6 Your glorying __is__ not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? +7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: +8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened __bread__ of sincerity and truth. +9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: +10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. +11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. +12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? +13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 DARE any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? +2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? +3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? +4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. +5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? +6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. +7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather __suffer__ __yourselves__ __to__ be defrauded? +8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that __your__ brethren. +9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, +10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. +11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. +12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. +13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body __is__ not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. +14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. +15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make __them__ the members of an harlot? God forbid. +16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. +17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. +18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. +19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost __which__ __is__ in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? +20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: __It__ __is__ good for a man not to touch a woman. +2 Nevertheless, __to__ __avoid__ fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. +3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. +4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. +5 Defraud ye not one the other, except __it__ __be__ with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. +6 But I speak this by permission, __and__ not of commandment. +7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. +8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. +9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. +10 And unto the married I command, __yet__ not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from __her__ husband: +11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to __her__ husband: and let not the husband put away __his__ wife. +12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. +13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. +14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. +15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such __cases:__ but God hath called us to peace. +16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save __thy__ husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save __thy__ wife? +17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches. +18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. +19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. +20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. +21 Art thou called __being__ a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use __it__ rather. +22 For he that is called in the Lord, __being__ a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, __being__ free, is Christ's servant. +23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. +24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. +25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. +26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, __I__ __say__, that __it__ __is__ good for a man so to be. +27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. +28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. +29 But this I say, brethren, the time __is__ short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; +30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; +31 And they that use this world, as not abusing __it:__ for the fashion of this world passeth away. +32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: +33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please __his__ wife. +34 There is difference __also__ between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please __her__ husband. +35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. +36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of __her__ age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. +37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. +38 So then he that giveth __her__ in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth __her__ not in marriage doeth better. +39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. +40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 NOW as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. +2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. +3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him. +4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol __is__ nothing in the world, and that __there__ __is__ none other God but one. +5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) +6 But to us __there__ __is__ __but__ one God, the Father, of whom __are__ all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom __are__ all things, and we by him. +7 Howbeit __there__ __is__ not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat __it__ as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. +8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. +9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. +10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; +11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? +12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. +13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AM I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? +2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. +3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, +4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? +5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and __as__ the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? +6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? +7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? +8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? +9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? +10 Or saith he __it__ altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, __this__ is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. +11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, __is__ __it__ a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? +12 If others be partakers of __this__ power over you, __are__ not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. +13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live __of__ __the__ __things__ of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? +14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. +15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for __it__ __were__ better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. +16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! +17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation __of__ __the__ __gospel__ is committed unto me. +18 What is my reward then? __Verily__ that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. +19 For though I be free from all __men__, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. +20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; +21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. +22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all __men__, that I might by all means save some. +23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with __you__. +24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. +25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they __do__ __it__ to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. +26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: +27 But I keep under my body, and bring __it__ into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 MOREOVER, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; +2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; +3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; +4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. +5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. +6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. +7 Neither be ye idolaters, as __were__ some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. +8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. +9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. +10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. +11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. +12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. +13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God __is__ faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear __it__. +14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. +15 I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. +16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? +17 For we __being__ many are one bread, __and__ one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. +18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? +19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? +20 But __I__ __say__, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. +21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. +22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? +23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. +24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another's __wealth__. +25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, __that__ eat, asking no question for conscience sake: +26 For the earth __is__ the Lord's, and the fulness thereof. +27 If any of them that believe not bid you __to__ __a__ __feast__, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. +28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth __is__ the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: +29 Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another __man__'__s__ conscience? +30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? +31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. +32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: +33 Even as I please all __men__ in all __things__, not seeking mine own profit, but the __profit__ of many, that they may be saved. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 BE ye followers of me, even as I also __am__ of Christ. +2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered __them__ to you. +3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman __is__ the man; and the head of Christ __is__ God. +4 Every man praying or prophesying, having __his__ head covered, dishonoureth his head. +5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with __her__ head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. +6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. +7 For a man indeed ought not to cover __his__ head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. +8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. +9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. +10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on __her__ head because of the angels. +11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. +12 For as the woman __is__ of the man, even so __is__ the man also by the woman; but all things of God. +13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? +14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? +15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for __her__ hair is given her for a covering. +16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. +17 Now in this that I declare __unto__ __you__ I praise __you__ not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. +18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. +19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. +20 When ye come together therefore into one place, __this__ is not to eat the Lord's supper. +21 For in eating every one taketh before __other__ his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. +22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise __you__ not. +23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the __same__ night in which he was betrayed took bread: +24 And when he had given thanks, he brake __it__, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. +25 After the same manner also __he__ __took__ the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink __it__, in remembrance of me. +26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. +27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink __this__ cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. +28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of __that__ bread, and drink of __that__ cup. +29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. +30 For this cause many __are__ weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. +31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. +32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. +33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. +34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 NOW concerning spiritual __gifts__, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. +2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. +3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and __that__ no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. +4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. +5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. +6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. +7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. +8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; +9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; +10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another __divers__ kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: +11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. +12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also __is__ Christ. +13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether __we__ __be__ Jews or Gentiles, whether __we__ __be__ bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. +14 For the body is not one member, but many. +15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? +16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? +17 If the whole body __were__ an eye, where __were__ the hearing? If the whole __were__ hearing, where __were__ the smelling? +18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. +19 And if they were all one member, where __were__ the body? +20 But now __are__ __they__ many members, yet but one body. +21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. +22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: +23 And those __members__ of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely __parts__ have more abundant comeliness. +24 For our comely __parts__ have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that __part__ which lacked: +25 That there should be no schism in the body; but __that__ the members should have the same care one for another. +26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. +27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. +28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. +29 __Are__ all apostles? __are__ all prophets? __are__ all teachers? __are__ all workers of miracles? +30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? +31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become __as__ sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. +2 And though I have __the__ __gift__ __of__ prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. +3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed __the__ __poor__, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. +4 Charity suffereth long, __and__ is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, +5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; +6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; +7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. +8 Charity never faileth: but whether __there__ __be__ prophecies, they shall fail; whether __there__ __be__ tongues, they shall cease; whether __there__ __be__ knowledge, it shall vanish away. +9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. +10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. +11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. +12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. +13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these __is__ charity. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 FOLLOW after charity, and desire spiritual __gifts__, but rather that ye may prophesy. +2 For he that speaketh in an __unknown__ tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth __him;__ howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. +3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men __to__ edification, and exhortation, and comfort. +4 He that speaketh in an __unknown__ tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. +5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater __is__ he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. +6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? +7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? +8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? +9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. +10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them __is__ without signification. +11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh __shall__ __be__ a barbarian unto me. +12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual __gifts__, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. +13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an __unknown__ tongue pray that he may interpret. +14 For if I pray in an __unknown__ tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. +15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. +16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? +17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. +18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: +19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that __by__ __my__ __voice__ I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an __unknown__ tongue. +20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. +21 In the law it is written, With __men__ __of__ other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. +22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying __serveth__ not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. +23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in __those__ __that__ __are__ unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? +24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or __one__ unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: +25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on __his__ face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. +26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. +27 If any man speak in an __unknown__ tongue, __let__ __it__ __be__ by two, or at the most __by__ three, and __that__ by course; and let one interpret. +28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. +29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. +30 If __any__ __thing__ be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. +31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. +32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. +33 For God is not __the__ __author__ of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. +34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but __they__ __are__ __commanded__ to be under obedience, as also saith the law. +35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. +36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? +37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. +38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. +39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. +40 Let all things be done decently and in order. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 MOREOVER, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; +2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. +3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; +4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: +5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: +6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. +7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. +8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. +9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. +10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which __was__ __bestowed__ upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. +11 Therefore whether __it__ __were__ I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. +12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? +13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: +14 And if Christ be not risen, then __is__ our preaching vain, and your faith __is__ also vain. +15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. +16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: +17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith __is__ vain; ye are yet in your sins. +18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. +19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. +20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, __and__ become the firstfruits of them that slept. +21 For since by man __came__ death, by man __came__ also the resurrection of the dead. +22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. +23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. +24 Then __cometh__ the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. +25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. +26 The last enemy __that__ shall be destroyed __is__ death. +27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under __him__, __it__ __is__ manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. +28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. +29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? +30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? +31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. +32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. +33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. +34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak __this__ to your shame. +35 But some __man__ will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? +36 __Thou__ fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: +37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other __grain:__ +38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. +39 All flesh __is__ not the same flesh: but __there__ __is__ one __kind__ __of__ flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, __and__ another of birds. +40 __There__ __are__ also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial __is__ one, and the __glory__ of the terrestrial __is__ another. +41 __There__ __is__ one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for __one__ star differeth from __another__ star in glory. +42 So also __is__ the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: +43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: +44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. +45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam __was__ __made__ a quickening spirit. +46 Howbeit that __was__ not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. +47 The first man __is__ of the earth, earthy: the second man __is__ the Lord from heaven. +48 As __is__ the earthy, such __are__ they also that are earthy: and as __is__ the heavenly, such __are__ they also that are heavenly. +49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. +50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. +51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, +52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. +53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal __must__ put on immortality. +54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. +55 O death, where __is__ thy sting? O grave, where __is__ thy victory? +56 The sting of death __is__ sin; and the strength of sin __is__ the law. +57 But thanks __be__ to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. +58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 NOW concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. +2 Upon the first __day__ of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as __God__ hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. +3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by __your__ letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. +4 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. +5 Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia. +6 And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. +7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit. +8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. +9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and __there__ __are__ many adversaries. +10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also __do__. +11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren. +12 As touching __our__ brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time. +13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. +14 Let all your things be done with charity. +15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and __that__ they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,) +16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with __us__, and laboureth. +17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied. +18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such. +19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house. +20 All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss. +21 The salutation of __me__ Paul with mine own hand. +22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha. +23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with you. +24 My love __be__ with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. +> ¶     The first __epistle__ to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus. +:::SET BOOK 2 Corinthians +:::SET TITLE The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy __our__ brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: +2 Grace __be__ to you and peace from God our Father, and __from__ the Lord Jesus Christ. +3 Blessed __be__ God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; +4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. +5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. +6 And whether we be afflicted, __it__ __is__ for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, __it__ __is__ for your consolation and salvation. +7 And our hope of you __is__ stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so __shall__ __ye__ __be__ also of the consolation. +8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: +9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: +10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver __us;__ +11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift __bestowed__ upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. +12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. +13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; +14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also __are__ ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. +15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; +16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judæa. +17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay? +18 But __as__ God __is__ true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. +19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, __even__ by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. +20 For all the promises of God in him __are__ yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. +21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, __is__ God; +22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. +23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth. +24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 BUT I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. +2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? +3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is __the__ __joy__ of you all. +4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. +5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all. +6 Sufficient to such a man __is__ this punishment, which __was__ __inflicted__ of many. +7 So that contrariwise ye __ought__ rather to forgive __him__, and comfort __him__, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. +8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm __your__ love toward him. +9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things. +10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I __forgive__ also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave __it__, for your sakes __forgave__ __I__ __it__ in the person of Christ; +11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. +12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to __preach__ Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, +13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. +14 Now thanks __be__ unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. +15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: +16 To the one __we__ __are__ the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who __is__ sufficient for these things? +17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 DO we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some __others__, epistles of commendation to you, or __letters__ of commendation from you? +2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: +3 __Forasmuch__ __as__ __ye__ __are__ manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. +4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: +5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency __is__ of God; +6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. +7 But if the ministration of death, written __and__ engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which __glory__ was to be done away: +8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? +9 For if the ministration of condemnation __be__ glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. +10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. +11 For if that which is done away __was__ glorious, much more that which remaineth __is__ glorious. +12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: +13 And not as Moses, __which__ put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: +14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which __vail__ is done away in Christ. +15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. +16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. +17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord __is__, there __is__ liberty. +18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, __even__ as by the Spirit of the Lord. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 THEREFORE seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; +2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. +3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: +4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. +5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. +6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to __give__ the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. +7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. +8 __We__ __are__ troubled on every side, yet not distressed; __we__ __are__ perplexed, but not in despair; +9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; +10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. +11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. +12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you. +13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; +14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present __us__ with you. +15 For all things __are__ for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. +16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward __man__ is renewed day by day. +17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding __and__ eternal weight of glory; +18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen __are__ temporal; but the things which are not seen __are__ eternal. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 FOR we know that if our earthly house of __this__ tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. +2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: +3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. +4 For we that are in __this__ tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. +5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing __is__ God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. +6 Therefore __we__ __are__ always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: +7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) +8 We are confident, __I__ __say__, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. +9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. +10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things __done__ in __his__ body, according to that he hath done, whether __it__ __be__ good or bad. +11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. +12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to __answer__ them which glory in appearance, and not in heart. +13 For whether we be beside ourselves, __it__ __is__ to God: or whether we be sober, __it__ __is__ for your cause. +14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: +15 And __that__ he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. +16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we __him__ no more. +17 Therefore if any man __be__ in Christ, __he__ __is__ a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. +18 And all things __are__ of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; +19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. +20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech __you__ by us: we pray __you__ in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. +21 For he hath made him __to__ __be__ sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 WE then, __as__ workers together __with__ __him__, beseech __you__ also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. +2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now __is__ the accepted time; behold, now __is__ the day of salvation.) +3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: +4 But in all __things__ approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, +5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; +6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, +7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, +8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and __yet__ true; +9 As unknown, and __yet__ well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; +10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and __yet__ possessing all things. +11 O __ye__ Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. +12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. +13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto __my__ children,) be ye also enlarged. +14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? +15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? +16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in __them;__ and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. +17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean __thing;__ and I will receive you, +18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. +2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man. +3 I speak not __this__ to condemn __you:__ for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with __you__. +4 Great __is__ my boldness of speech toward you, great __is__ my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. +5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without __were__ fightings, within __were__ fears. +6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; +7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. +8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though __it__ __were__ but for a season. +9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. +10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. +11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, __what__ clearing of yourselves, yea, __what__ indignation, yea, __what__ fear, yea, __what__ vehement desire, yea, __what__ zeal, yea, __what__ revenge! In all __things__ ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. +12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, __I__ __did__ __it__ not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. +13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. +14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which __I__ __made__ before Titus, is found a truth. +15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him. +16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all __things__. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 MOREOVER, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; +2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. +3 For to __their__ power, I bear record, yea, and beyond __their__ power __they__ __were__ willing of themselves; +4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and __take__ __upon__ __us__ the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. +5 And __this__ __they__ __did__, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God. +6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also. +7 Therefore, as ye abound in every __thing__, __in__ faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and __in__ all diligence, and __in__ your love to us, __see__ that ye abound in this grace also. +8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. +9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. +10 And herein I give __my__ advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. +11 Now therefore perform the doing __of__ __it;__ that as __there__ __was__ a readiness to will, so __there__ __may__ __be__ a performance also out of that which ye have. +12 For if there be first a willing mind, __it__ __is__ accepted according to that a man hath, __and__ not according to that he hath not. +13 For __I__ __mean__ not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: +14 But by an equality, __that__ now at this time your abundance __may__ __be__ __a__ __supply__ for their want, that their abundance also may be __a__ __supply__ for your want: that there may be equality: +15 As it is written, He that __had__ __gathered__ much had nothing over; and he that __had__ __gathered__ little had no lack. +16 But thanks __be__ to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you. +17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. +18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise __is__ in the gospel throughout all the churches; +19 And not __that__ only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and __declaration__ __of__ your ready mind: +20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: +21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. +22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which __I__ __have__ in you. +23 Whether __any__ __do__ __inquire__ of Titus, __he__ __is__ my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren __be__ __inquired__ __of__, __they__ __are__ the messengers of the churches, __and__ the glory of Christ. +24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 FOR as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: +2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. +3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: +4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. +5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as __a__ __matter__ __of__ bounty, and not as __of__ covetousness. +6 But this __I__ __say__, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. +7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, __so__ __let__ __him__ __give;__ not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. +8 And God __is__ able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all __things__, may abound to every good work: +9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever. +10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for __your__ food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) +11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. +12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; +13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for __your__ liberal distribution unto them, and unto all __men;__ +14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. +15 Thanks __be__ unto God for his unspeakable gift. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 NOW I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence __am__ base among you, but being absent am bold toward you: +2 But I beseech __you__, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. +3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: +4 (For the weapons of our warfare __are__ not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) +5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; +6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. +7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he __is__ Christ's, even so __are__ we Christ's. +8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: +9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. +10 For __his__ letters, say they, __are__ weighty and powerful; but __his__ bodily presence __is__ weak, and __his__ speech contemptible. +11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such __will__ __we__ __be__ also in deed when we are present. +12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. +13 But we will not boast of things without __our__ measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. +14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond __our__ __measure__, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in __preaching__ the gospel of Christ: +15 Not boasting of things without __our__ measure, __that__ __is__, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, +16 To preach the gospel in the __regions__ beyond you, __and__ not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. +17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. +18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 WOULD to God ye could bear with me a little in __my__ folly: and indeed bear with me. +2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present __you__ __as__ a chaste virgin to Christ. +3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. +4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or __if__ ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with __him__. +5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. +6 But though __I__ __be__ rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. +7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? +8 I robbed other churches, taking wages __of__ __them__, to do you service. +9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all __things__ I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and __so__ will I keep __myself__. +10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. +11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. +12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. +13 For such __are__ false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. +14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. +15 Therefore __it__ __is__ no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. +16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. +17 That which I speak, I speak __it__ not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. +18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. +19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye __yourselves__ are wise. +20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour __you__, if a man take __of__ __you__, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. +21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. +22 Are they Hebrews? so __am__ I. Are they Israelites? so __am__ I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so __am__ I. +23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I __am__ more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. +24 Of the Jews five times received I forty __stripes__ save one. +25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; +26 __In__ journeyings often, __in__ perils of waters, __in__ perils of robbers, __in__ perils by __mine__ __own__ countrymen, __in__ perils by the heathen, __in__ perils in the city, __in__ perils in the wilderness, __in__ perils in the sea, __in__ perils among false brethren; +27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. +28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. +29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? +30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. +31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. +32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: +33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 IT is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. +2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. +3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) +4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. +5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. +6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but __now__ I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me __to__ __be__, or __that__ he heareth of me. +7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. +8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. +9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. +10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. +11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. +12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. +13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except __it__ __be__ that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. +14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. +15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. +16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. +17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? +18 I desired Titus, and with __him__ I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? __walked__ __we__ not in the same steps? +19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but __we__ __do__ all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. +20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and __that__ I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest __there__ __be__ debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: +21 __And__ lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and __that__ I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 THIS __is__ the third __time__ I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. +2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: +3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. +4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. +5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? +6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. +7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. +8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. +9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, __even__ your perfection. +10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. +11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. +12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. +13 All the saints salute you. +14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, __be__ with you all. Amen. +> ¶     The second __epistle__ to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, __a__ __city__ of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. +:::SET BOOK Galatians +:::SET TITLE The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) +2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: +3 Grace __be__ to you and peace from God the Father, and __from__ our Lord Jesus Christ, +4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: +5 To whom __be__ glory for ever and ever. Amen. +6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: +7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. +8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. +9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any __man__ preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. +10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. +11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. +12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught __it__, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. +13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: +14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. +15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called __me__ by his grace, +16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: +17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. +18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. +19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. +20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. +21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; +22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judæa which were in Christ: +23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. +24 And they glorified God in me. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THEN fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with __me__ also. +2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. +3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: +4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: +5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. +6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed __to__ __be__ __somewhat__ in conference added nothing to me: +7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as __the__ __gospel__ of the circumcision __was__ unto Peter; +8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) +9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we __should__ __go__ unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. +10 Only __they__ __would__ that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. +11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. +12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. +13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. +14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before __them__ all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? +15 We __who__ __are__ Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, +16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. +17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, __is__ therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. +18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. +19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. +20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. +21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness __come__ by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 O FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? +2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? +3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? +4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if __it__ __be__ yet in vain. +5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, __doeth__ __he__ __it__ by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? +6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. +7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. +8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, __saying__, In thee shall all nations be blessed. +9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. +10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed __is__ every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. +11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, __it__ __is__ evident: for, The just shall live by faith. +12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. +13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed __is__ every one that hangeth on a tree: +14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. +15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though __it__ __be__ but a man's covenant, yet __if__ __it__ __be__ confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. +16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. +17 And this I say, __that__ the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. +18 For if the inheritance __be__ of the law, __it__ __is__ no more of promise: but God gave __it__ to Abraham by promise. +19 Wherefore then __serveth__ the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; __and__ __it__ __was__ ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. +20 Now a mediator is not __a__ __mediator__ of one, but God is one. +21 __Is__ the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. +22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. +23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. +24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster __to__ __bring__ __us__ unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. +25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. +26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. +27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. +28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. +29 And if ye __be__ Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 NOW I say, __That__ the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; +2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. +3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: +4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, +5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. +6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. +7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. +8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. +9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? +10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. +11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. +12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I __am;__ for I __am__ as ye __are:__ ye have not injured me at all. +13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first. +14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, __even__ as Christ Jesus. +15 Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if __it__ __had__ __been__ possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. +16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? +17 They zealously affect you, __but__ not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. +18 But __it__ __is__ good to be zealously affected always in __a__ good __thing__, and not only when I am present with you. +19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, +20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. +21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? +22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. +23 But he __who__ __was__ of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman __was__ by promise. +24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. +25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. +26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. +27 For it is written, Rejoice, __thou__ barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. +28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. +29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him __that__ __was__ __born__ after the Spirit, even so __it__ __is__ now. +30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. +31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. +2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. +3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. +4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. +5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. +6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. +7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? +8 This persuasion __cometh__ not of him that calleth you. +9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. +10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. +11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. +12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you. +13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only __use__ not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. +14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, __even__ in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. +15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. +16 __This__ I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. +17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. +18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. +19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are __these;__ Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, +20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, +21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told __you__ in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. +22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, +23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. +24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. +25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. +26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. +2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. +3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. +4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. +5 For every man shall bear his own burden. +6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. +7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. +8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. +9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. +10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all __men__, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. +11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. +12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. +13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. +14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. +15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. +16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace __be__ on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God. +17 From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. +18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with your spirit. Amen. +> ¶     Unto __the__ Galatians written from Rome. +:::SET BOOK Ephesians +:::SET TITLE The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: +2 Grace __be__ to you, and peace, from God our Father, and __from__ the Lord Jesus Christ. +3 Blessed __be__ the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly __places__ in Christ: +4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: +5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, +6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. +7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; +8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; +9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: +10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; __even__ in him: +11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: +12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. +13 In whom ye also __trusted__, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, +14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. +15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, +16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; +17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: +18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, +19 And what __is__ the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, +20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set __him__ at his own right hand in the heavenly __places__, +21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: +22 And hath put all __things__ under his feet, and gave him __to__ __be__ the head over all __things__ to the church, +23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 AND you __hath__ __he__ __quickened__, who were dead in trespasses and sins; +2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: +3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. +4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, +5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) +6 And hath raised __us__ up together, and made __us__ sit together in heavenly __places__ in Christ Jesus: +7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in __his__ kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. +8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: __it__ __is__ the gift of God: +9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. +10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. +11 Wherefore remember, that ye __being__ in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; +12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: +13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. +14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition __between__ __us;__ +15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, __even__ the law of commandments __contained__ in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, __so__ making peace; +16 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: +17 And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. +18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. +19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; +20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner __stone;__ +21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: +22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 FOR this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, +2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: +3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, +4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) +5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; +6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: +7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. +8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; +9 And to make all __men__ see what __is__ the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: +10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly __places__ might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, +11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: +12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. +13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. +14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, +15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, +16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; +17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, +18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what __is__ the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; +19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. +20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, +21 Unto him __be__ glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, +2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; +3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. +4 __There__ __is__ one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; +5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, +6 One God and Father of all, who __is__ above all, and through all, and in you all. +7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. +8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. +9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? +10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) +11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; +12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: +13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: +14 That we __henceforth__ be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, __and__ cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; +15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, __even__ Christ: +16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. +17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, +18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: +19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. +20 But ye have not so learned Christ; +21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: +22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; +23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; +24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. +25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. +26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: +27 Neither give place to the devil. +28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with __his__ hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. +29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. +30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. +31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: +32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 BE ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; +2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. +3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; +4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. +5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. +6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. +7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. +8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now __are__ __ye__ light in the Lord: walk as children of light: +9 (For the fruit of the Spirit __is__ in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) +10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. +11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove __them__. +12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. +13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. +14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. +15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, +16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. +17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord __is__. +18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; +19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; +20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; +21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. +22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. +23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. +24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so __let__ the wives __be__ to their own husbands in every thing. +25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; +26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, +27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. +28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. +29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: +30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. +31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. +32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. +33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife __see__ that she reverence __her__ husband. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. +2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) +3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. +4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. +5 Servants, be obedient to them that are __your__ masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; +6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart; +7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: +8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether __he__ __be__ bond or free. +9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. +10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. +11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. +12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high __places__. +13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. +14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; +15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; +16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. +17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: +18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; +19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, +20 For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. +21 But that ye also may know my affairs, __and__ how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things: +22 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and __that__ he might comfort your hearts. +23 Peace __be__ to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +24 Grace __be__ with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. +> ¶     Written from Rome unto __the__ Ephesians by Tychicus. +:::SET BOOK Philippians +:::SET TITLE The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: +2 Grace __be__ unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and __from__ the Lord Jesus Christ. +3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, +4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, +5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; +6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform __it__ until the day of Jesus Christ: +7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace. +8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. +9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and __in__ all judgment; +10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; +11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. +12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things __which__ __happened__ unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; +13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other __places;__ +14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. +15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: +16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: +17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. +18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. +19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, +20 According to my earnest expectation and __my__ hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but __that__ with all boldness, as always, __so__ now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether __it__ __be__ by life, or by death. +21 For to me to live __is__ Christ, and to die __is__ gain. +22 But if I live in the flesh, this __is__ the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. +23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: +24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh __is__ more needful for you. +25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; +26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again. +27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; +28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. +29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; +30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear __to__ __be__ in me. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 IF __there__ __be__ therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, +2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, __being__ of one accord, of one mind. +3 __Let__ nothing __be__ __done__ through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. +4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. +5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: +6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: +7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: +8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. +9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: +10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of __things__ in heaven, and __things__ in earth, and __things__ under the earth; +11 And __that__ every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ __is__ Lord, to the glory of God the Father. +12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. +13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of __his__ good pleasure. +14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: +15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; +16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. +17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. +18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. +19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. +20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. +21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. +22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. +23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. +24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. +25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. +26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. +27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. +28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. +29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: +30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 FINALLY, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed __is__ not grievous, but for you __it__ __is__ safe. +2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. +3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. +4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: +5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, __of__ the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; +6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. +7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. +8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things __but__ loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them __but__ dung, that I may win Christ, +9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: +10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; +11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. +12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. +13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but __this__ one thing __I__ __do__, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, +14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. +15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. +16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. +17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. +18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, __that__ __they__ __are__ the enemies of the cross of Christ: +19 Whose end __is__ destruction, whose God __is__ __their__ belly, and __whose__ glory __is__ in their shame, who mind earthly things.) +20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: +21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 THEREFORE, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, __my__ dearly beloved. +2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. +3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and __with__ other my fellowlabourers, whose names __are__ in the book of life. +4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: __and__ again I say, Rejoice. +5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord __is__ at hand. +6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. +7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. +8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things __are__ honest, whatsoever things __are__ just, whatsoever things __are__ pure, whatsoever things __are__ lovely, whatsoever things __are__ of good report; if __there__ __be__ any virtue, and if __there__ __be__ any praise, think on these things. +9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. +10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. +11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, __therewith__ to be content. +12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. +13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. +14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. +15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. +16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. +17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. +18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things __which__ __were__ __sent__ from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. +19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. +20 Now unto God and our Father __be__ glory for ever and ever. Amen. +21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you. +22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Cæsar's household. +23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with you all. Amen. +> ¶     It was written to __the__ Philippians from Rome by Epaphroditus. +:::SET BOOK Colossians +:::SET TITLE The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus __our__ brother, +2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace __be__ unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, +4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love __which__ __ye__ __have__ to all the saints, +5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; +6 Which is come unto you, as __it__ __is__ in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as __it__ __doth__ also in you, since the day ye heard __of__ __it__, and knew the grace of God in truth: +7 As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; +8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. +9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard __it__, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; +10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; +11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; +12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: +13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated __us__ into the kingdom of his dear Son: +14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, __even__ the forgiveness of sins: +15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: +16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether __they__ __be__ thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: +17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. +18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all __things__ he might have the preeminence. +19 For it pleased __the__ __Father__ that in him should all fulness dwell; +20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, __I__ __say__, whether __they__ __be__ things in earth, or things in heaven. +21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in __your__ mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled +22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: +23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and __be__ not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, __and__ which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; +24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: +25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; +26 __Even__ the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: +27 To whom God would make known what __is__ the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: +28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: +29 Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 FOR I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and __for__ them at Laodicea, and __for__ as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; +2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; +3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. +4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. +5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. +6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, __so__ walk ye in him: +7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. +8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. +9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. +10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: +11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: +12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with __him__ through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. +13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; +14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; +15 __And__ having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. +16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath __days:__ +17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body __is__ of Christ. +18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, +19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. +20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, +21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; +22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? +23 Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. +2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. +3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. +4 When Christ, __who__ __is__ our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. +5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: +6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: +7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. +8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. +9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; +10 And have put on the new __man__, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: +11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond __nor__ free: but Christ __is__ all, and in all. +12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; +13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also __do__ ye. +14 And above all these things __put__ __on__ charity, which is the bond of perfectness. +15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. +16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. +17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, __do__ all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. +18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. +19 Husbands, love __your__ wives, and be not bitter against them. +20 Children, obey __your__ parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. +21 Fathers, provoke not your children __to__ __anger__, lest they be discouraged. +22 Servants, obey in all things __your__ masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: +23 And whatsoever ye do, do __it__ heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; +24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. +25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 MASTERS, give unto __your__ servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. +2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; +3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: +4 That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. +5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. +6 Let your speech __be__ alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. +7 All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, __who__ __is__ a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord: +8 Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts; +9 With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is __one__ of you. They shall make known unto you all things which __are__ __done__ here. +10 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;) +11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only __are__ __my__ fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me. +12 Epaphras, who is __one__ of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. +13 For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them __that__ __are__ in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis. +14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you. +15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. +16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the __epistle__ from Laodicea. +17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. +18 The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace __be__ with you. Amen. +> ¶     Written from Rome to the Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus. +:::SET BOOK 1 Thessalonians +:::SET TITLE The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians __which__ __is__ in God the Father and __in__ the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace __be__ unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. +2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; +3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; +4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. +5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. +6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: +7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. +8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. +9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; +10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, __even__ Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 FOR yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: +2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. +3 For our exhortation __was__ not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: +4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. +5 For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God __is__ witness: +6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor __yet__ of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ. +7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: +8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. +9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. +10 Ye __are__ witnesses, and God __also__, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: +11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father __doth__ his children, +12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. +13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received __it__ not __as__ the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. +14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judæa are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they __have__ of the Jews: +15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: +16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. +17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. +18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us. +19 For what __is__ our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? __Are__ not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? +20 For ye are our glory and joy. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 WHEREFORE when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; +2 And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: +3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. +4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know. +5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. +6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also __to__ __see__ you: +7 Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: +8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. +9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God; +10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? +11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. +12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all __men__, even as we __do__ toward you: +13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 FURTHERMORE then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort __you__ by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, __so__ ye would abound more and more. +2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. +3 For this is the will of God, __even__ your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: +4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; +5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: +6 That no __man__ go beyond and defraud his brother in __any__ matter: because that the Lord __is__ the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. +7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. +8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. +9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. +10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; +11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; +12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and __that__ ye may have lack of nothing. +13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. +14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. +15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive __and__ remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. +16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: +17 Then we which are alive __and__ remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. +18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 BUT of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. +2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. +3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. +4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. +5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. +6 Therefore let us not sleep, as __do__ others; but let us watch and be sober. +7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. +8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. +9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, +10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. +11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. +12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; +13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. __And__ be at peace among yourselves. +14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all __men__. +15 See that none render evil for evil unto any __man;__ but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all __men__. +16 Rejoice evermore. +17 Pray without ceasing. +18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. +19 Quench not the Spirit. +20 Despise not prophesyings. +21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. +22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. +23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and __I__ __pray__ __God__ your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. +24 Faithful __is__ he that calleth you, who also will do __it__. +25 Brethren, pray for us. +26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. +27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren. +28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with you. Amen. +> ¶     The first __epistle__ unto the Thessalonians was written from Athens. +:::SET BOOK 2 Thessalonians +:::SET TITLE The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: +2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; +4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: +5 __Which__ __is__ a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: +6 Seeing __it__ __is__ a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; +7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, +8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: +9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; +10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. +11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of __this__ calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of __his__ goodness, and the work of faith with power: +12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 NOW we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and __by__ our gathering together unto him, +2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. +3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for __that__ __day__ __shall__ __not__ __come__, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; +4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. +5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? +6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. +7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth __will__ __let__, until he be taken out of the way. +8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: +9 __Even__ __him__, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, +10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. +11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: +12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. +13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: +14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. +15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. +16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given __us__ everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, +17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 FINALLY, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have __free__ course, and be glorified, even as __it__ __is__ with you: +2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all __men__ have not faith. +3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep __you__ from evil. +4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. +5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. +6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. +7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; +8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: +9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us. +10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. +11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. +12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread. +13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. +14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. +15 Yet count __him__ not as an enemy, but admonish __him__ as a brother. +16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord __be__ with you all. +17 The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write. +18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with you all. Amen. +> ¶     The second __epistle__ to the Thessalonians was written from Athens. +:::SET BOOK 1 Timothy +:::SET TITLE The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, __which__ __is__ our hope; +2 Unto Timothy, __my__ own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, __and__ peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. +3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, +4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: __so__ __do__. +5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and __of__ a good conscience, and __of__ faith unfeigned: +6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; +7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. +8 But we know that the law __is__ good, if a man use it lawfully; +9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, +10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; +11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. +12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; +13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did __it__ ignorantly in unbelief. +14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. +15 This __is__ a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. +16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. +17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, __be__ honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. +18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; +19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: +20 Of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 I EXHORT therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, __and__ giving of thanks, be made for all men; +2 For kings, and __for__ all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. +3 For this __is__ good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; +4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. +5 For __there__ __is__ one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; +6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. +7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, __and__ lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. +8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. +9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; +10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. +11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. +12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. +13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. +14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. +15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THIS __is__ a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. +2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; +3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; +4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; +5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) +6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. +7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. +8 Likewise __must__ the deacons __be__ grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; +9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. +10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being __found__ blameless. +11 Even so __must__ __their__ wives __be__ grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. +12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. +13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. +14 These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: +15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. +16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 NOW the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; +2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; +3 Forbidding to marry, __and__ __commanding__ to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. +4 For every creature of God __is__ good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: +5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. +6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. +7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself __rather__ unto godliness. +8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. +9 This __is__ a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. +10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. +11 These things command and teach. +12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. +13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. +14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. +15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. +16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 REBUKE not an elder, but intreat __him__ as a father; __and__ the younger men as brethren; +2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. +3 Honour widows that are widows indeed. +4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. +5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. +6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. +7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless. +8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. +9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, +10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. +11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; +12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith. +13 And withal they learn __to__ __be__ idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. +14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. +15 For some are already turned aside after Satan. +16 If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed. +17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. +18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer __is__ worthy of his reward. +19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. +20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. +21 I charge __thee__ before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. +22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. +23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. +24 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some __men__ they follow after. +25 Likewise also the good works __of__ __some__ are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 LET as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and __his__ doctrine be not blasphemed. +2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise __them__, because they are brethren; but rather do __them__ service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. +3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, __even__ the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; +4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, +5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. +6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. +7 For we brought nothing into __this__ world, __and__ __it__ __is__ certain we can carry nothing out. +8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. +9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and __into__ many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. +10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. +11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. +12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses. +13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and __before__ Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; +14 That thou keep __this__ commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: +15 Which in his times he shall shew, __who__ __is__ the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; +16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom __be__ honour and power everlasting. Amen. +17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; +18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; +19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. +20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane __and__ vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: +21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace __be__ with thee. Amen. +> ¶     The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana. +:::SET BOOK 2 Timothy +:::SET TITLE The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, +2 To Timothy, __my__ dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, __and__ peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. +3 I thank God, whom I serve from __my__ forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; +4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; +5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. +6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. +7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. +8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; +9 Who hath saved us, and called __us__ with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, +10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: +11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. +12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. +13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. +14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. +15 This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. +16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: +17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found __me__. +18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THOU therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. +2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. +3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. +4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of __this__ life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. +5 And if a man also strive for masteries, __yet__ is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. +6 The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. +7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. +8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel: +9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, __even__ unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. +10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. +11 __It__ __is__ a faithful saying: For if we be dead with __him__, we shall also live with __him:__ +12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with __him:__ if we deny __him__, he also will deny us: +13 If we believe not, __yet__ he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. +14 Of these things put __them__ in remembrance, charging __them__ before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, __but__ to the subverting of the hearers. +15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. +16 But shun profane __and__ vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. +17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus; +18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. +19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. +20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. +21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, __and__ prepared unto every good work. +22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. +23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. +24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all __men__, apt to teach, patient, +25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; +26 And __that__ they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THIS know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. +2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, +3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, +4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; +5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. +6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, +7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. +8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. +9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all __men__, as theirs also was. +10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, +11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of __them__ all the Lord delivered me. +12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. +13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. +14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned __them;__ +15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. +16 All scripture __is__ given by inspiration of God, and __is__ profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: +17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 I CHARGE __thee__ therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; +2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. +3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; +4 And they shall turn away __their__ ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. +5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. +6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. +7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished __my__ course, I have kept the faith: +8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. +9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: +10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. +11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. +12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus. +13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring __with__ __thee__, and the books, __but__ especially the parchments. +14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: +15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words. +16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all __men__ forsook me: __I__ __pray__ __God__ that it may not be laid to their charge. +17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and __that__ all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. +18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve __me__ unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom __be__ glory for ever and ever. Amen. +19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. +20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick. +21 Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren. +22 The Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with thy spirit. Grace __be__ with you. Amen. +> ¶     The second __epistle__ unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time. +:::SET BOOK Titus +:::SET TITLE The Epistle of Paul to Titus +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; +2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; +3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; +4 To Titus, __mine__ own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, __and__ peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. +5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: +6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. +7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; +8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; +9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. +10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: +11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. +12 One of themselves, __even__ a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians __are__ alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. +13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; +14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. +15 Unto the pure all things __are__ pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving __is__ nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. +16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny __him__, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 BUT speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: +2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. +3 The aged women likewise, that __they__ __be__ in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; +4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, +5 __To__ __be__ discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. +6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. +7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine __shewing__ uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, +8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. +9 __Exhort__ servants to be obedient unto their own masters, __and__ to please __them__ well in all __things;__ not answering again; +10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. +11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, +12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; +13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; +14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. +15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 PUT them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, +2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, __but__ gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. +3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, __and__ hating one another. +4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, +5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; +6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; +7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. +8 __This__ __is__ a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. +9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. +10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; +11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. +12 When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter. +13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. +14 And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. +15 All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace __be__ with you all. Amen. +> ¶     It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia. +:::SET BOOK Philemon +:::SET TITLE The Epistle of Paul to Philemon +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PAUL, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy __our__ brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer, +2 And to __our__ beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: +3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. +4 I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, +5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; +6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. +7 For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. +8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, +9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech __thee__, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. +10 I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: +11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: +12 Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: +13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: +14 But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. +15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; +16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? +17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. +18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth __thee__ ought, put that on mine account; +19 I Paul have written __it__ with mine own hand, I will repay __it:__ albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides. +20 Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord. +21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. +22 But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you. +23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus; +24 Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers. +25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with your spirit. Amen. +> ¶     Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant. +:::SET BOOK Hebrews +:::SET TITLE The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 GOD, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, +2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by __his__ Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; +3 Who being the brightness of __his__ glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; +4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. +5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? +6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. +7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. +8 But unto the Son __he__ __saith__, Thy throne, O God, __is__ for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness __is__ the sceptre of thy kingdom. +9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, __even__ thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. +10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: +11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; +12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. +13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? +14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 THEREFORE we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let __them__ slip. +2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; +3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard __him;__ +4 God also bearing __them__ witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? +5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. +6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? +7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: +8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing __that__ __is__ not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. +9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. +10 For it became him, for whom __are__ all things, and by whom __are__ all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. +11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified __are__ all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, +12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. +13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. +14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; +15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. +16 For verily he took not on __him__ __the__ __nature__ __of__ angels; but he took on __him__ the seed of Abraham. +17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto __his__ brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things __pertaining__ to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. +18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 WHEREFORE, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; +2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses __was__ __faithful__ in all his house. +3 For this __man__ was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. +4 For every house is builded by some __man;__ but he that built all things __is__ God. +5 And Moses verily __was__ faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; +6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. +7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, +8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: +9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. +10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in __their__ heart; and they have not known my ways. +11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) +12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. +13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. +14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; +15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. +16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. +17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? __was__ __it__ not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? +18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? +19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 LET us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left __us__ of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. +2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard __it__. +3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. +4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh __day__ on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. +5 And in this __place__ again, If they shall enter into my rest. +6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: +7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. +8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. +9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. +10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God __did__ from his. +11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. +12 For the word of God __is__ quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and __is__ a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. +13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things __are__ naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. +14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast __our__ profession. +15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as __we__ __are__, __yet__ without sin. +16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 FOR every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things __pertaining__ to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: +2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. +3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. +4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as __was__ Aaron. +5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. +6 As he saith also in another __place__, Thou __art__ a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. +7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; +8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; +9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; +10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. +11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. +12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which __be__ the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. +13 For every one that useth milk __is__ unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. +14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, __even__ those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 THEREFORE leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, +2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. +3 And this will we do, if God permit. +4 For __it__ __is__ impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, +5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, +6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put __him__ to an open shame. +7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: +8 But that which beareth thorns and briers __is__ rejected, and __is__ nigh unto cursing; whose end __is__ to be burned. +9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. +10 For God __is__ not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. +11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: +12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. +13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, +14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. +15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. +16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation __is__ to them an end of all strife. +17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed __it__ by an oath: +18 That by two immutable things, in which __it__ __was__ impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: +19 Which __hope__ we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; +20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, __even__ Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 FOR this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; +2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; +3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. +4 Now consider how great this man __was__, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. +5 And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham: +6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises. +7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. +8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he __receiveth__ __them__, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. +9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. +10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. +11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need __was__ __there__ that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? +12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. +13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. +14 For __it__ __is__ evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. +15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, +16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. +17 For he testifieth, Thou __art__ a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. +18 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. +19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope __did;__ by the which we draw nigh unto God. +20 And inasmuch as not without an oath __he__ __was__ __made__ __priest:__ +21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou __art__ a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) +22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. +23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: +24 But this __man__, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. +25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. +26 For such an high priest became us, __who__ __is__ holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; +27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. +28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, __maketh__ the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 NOW of the things which we have spoken __this__ __is__ the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; +2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. +3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore __it__ __is__ of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. +4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: +5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, __that__ thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. +6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. +7 For if that first __covenant__ had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. +8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: +9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. +10 For this __is__ the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: +11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. +12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. +13 In that he saith, A new __covenant__, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old __is__ ready to vanish away. +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 THEN verily the first __covenant__ had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. +2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein __was__ the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. +3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; +4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein __was__ the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; +5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. +6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service __of__ __God__. +7 But into the second __went__ the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and __for__ the errors of the people: +8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: +9 Which __was__ a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; +10 __Which__ __stood__ only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed __on__ __them__ until the time of reformation. +11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; +12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption __for__ __us__. +13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: +14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? +15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions __that__ __were__ under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. +16 For where a testament __is__, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. +17 For a testament __is__ of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. +18 Whereupon neither the first __testament__ was dedicated without blood. +19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, +20 Saying, This __is__ the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. +21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. +22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. +23 __It__ __was__ therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. +24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, __which__ __are__ the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: +25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; +26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. +27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: +28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 FOR the law having a shadow of good things to come, __and__ not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. +2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. +3 But in those __sacrifices__ __there__ __is__ a remembrance again __made__ of sins every year. +4 For __it__ __is__ not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. +5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: +6 In burnt offerings and __sacrifices__ for sin thou hast had no pleasure. +7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. +8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and __offering__ for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure __therein;__ which are offered by the law; +9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. +10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once __for__ __all__. +11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: +12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; +13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. +14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. +15 __Whereof__ the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, +16 This __is__ the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; +17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. +18 Now where remission of these __is__, __there__ __is__ no more offering for sin. +19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, +20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; +21 And __having__ an high priest over the house of God; +22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. +23 Let us hold fast the profession of __our__ faith without wavering; (for he __is__ faithful that promised;) +24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: +25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some __is;__ but exhorting __one__ __another:__ and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. +26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, +27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. +28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: +29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? +30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance __belongeth__ unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. +31 __It__ __is__ a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. +32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; +33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. +34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. +35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. +36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. +37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. +38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if __any__ __man__ draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. +39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. +2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. +3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. +4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. +5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. +6 But without faith __it__ __is__ impossible to please __him:__ for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and __that__ he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. +7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. +8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. +9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as __in__ a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: +10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker __is__ God. +11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. +12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, __so__ __many__ as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. +13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of __them__, and embraced __them__, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. +14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. +15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that __country__ from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. +16 But now they desire a better __country__, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. +17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten __son__, +18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: +19 Accounting that God __was__ able to raise __him__ up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure. +20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. +21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, __leaning__ upon the top of his staff. +22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. +23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw __he__ __was__ a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. +24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; +25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; +26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. +27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. +28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. +29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry __land:__ which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. +30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. +31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. +32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and __of__ Barak, and __of__ Samson, and __of__ Jephthae; __of__ David also, and Samuel, and __of__ the prophets: +33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, +34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. +35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: +36 And others had trial of __cruel__ mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: +37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; +38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and __in__ mountains, and __in__ dens and caves of the earth. +39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: +40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset __us__, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, +2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of __our__ faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. +3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. +4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. +5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: +6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. +7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? +8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. +9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected __us__, and we gave __them__ reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? +10 For they verily for a few days chastened __us__ after their own pleasure; but he for __our__ profit, that __we__ might be partakers of his holiness. +11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. +12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; +13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. +14 Follow peace with all __men__, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: +15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble __you__, and thereby many be defiled; +16 Lest there __be__ any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. +17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. +18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, +19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which __voice__ they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: +20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: +21 And so terrible was the sight, __that__ Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) +22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, +23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, +24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than __that__ __of__ Abel. +25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more __shall__ __not__ we __escape__, if we turn away from him that __speaketh__ from heaven: +26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. +27 And this __word__, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. +28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: +29 For our God __is__ a consuming fire. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 LET brotherly love continue. +2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. +3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; __and__ them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. +4 Marriage __is__ honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. +5 __Let__ __your__ conversation __be__ without covetousness; __and__ __be__ content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. +6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord __is__ my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. +7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of __their__ conversation. +8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. +9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For __it__ __is__ a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. +10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. +11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. +12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. +13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. +14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. +15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of __our__ lips giving thanks to his name. +16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. +17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that __is__ unprofitable for you. +18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. +19 But I beseech __you__ the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. +20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, +21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom __be__ glory for ever and ever. Amen. +22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. +23 Know ye that __our__ brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you. +24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. +25 Grace __be__ with you all. Amen. +> ¶     Written to the Hebrews from Italy by Timothy. +:::SET BOOK James +:::SET TITLE The General Epistle of James +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. +2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; +3 Knowing __this__, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. +4 But let patience have __her__ perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. +5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all __men__ liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. +6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. +7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. +8 A double minded man __is__ unstable in all his ways. +9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: +10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. +11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. +12 Blessed __is__ the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. +13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: +14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. +15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. +16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. +17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. +18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. +19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: +20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. +21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. +22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. +23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: +24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. +25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth __therein__, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. +26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion __is__ vain. +27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, __and__ to keep himself unspotted from the world. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 MY brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, __the__ __Lord__ of glory, with respect of persons. +2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; +3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: +4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? +5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? +6 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? +7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? +8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: +9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. +10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one __point__, he is guilty of all. +11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. +12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. +13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. +14 What __doth__ __it__ profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? +15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, +16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be __ye__ warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what __doth__ __it__ profit? +17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. +18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. +19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. +20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? +21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? +22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? +23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. +24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. +25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent __them__ out another way? +26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 MY brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. +2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same __is__ a perfect man, __and__ able also to bridle the whole body. +3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. +4 Behold also the ships, which though __they__ __be__ so great, and __are__ driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. +5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! +6 And the tongue __is__ a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. +7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: +8 But the tongue can no man tame; __it__ __is__ an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. +9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. +10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. +11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet __water__ and bitter? +12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so __can__ no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. +13 Who __is__ a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. +14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. +15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but __is__ earthly, sensual, devilish. +16 For where envying and strife __is__, there __is__ confusion and every evil work. +17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, __and__ easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. +18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 FROM whence __come__ wars and fightings among you? __come__ __they__ not hence, __even__ of your lusts that war in your members? +2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. +3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume __it__ upon your lusts. +4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. +5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? +6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. +7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. +8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse __your__ hands, __ye__ sinners; and purify __your__ hearts, __ye__ double minded. +9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and __your__ joy to heaviness. +10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. +11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of __his__ brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. +12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? +13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: +14 Whereas ye know not what __shall__ __be__ on the morrow. For what __is__ your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. +15 For that ye __ought__ to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. +16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. +17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth __it__ not, to him it is sin. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 GO to now, __ye__ rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon __you__. +2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. +3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. +4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. +5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. +6 Ye have condemned __and__ killed the just; __and__ he doth not resist you. +7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. +8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. +9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. +10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. +11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. +12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and __your__ nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation. +13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. +14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: +15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. +16 Confess __your__ faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. +17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. +18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. +19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; +20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. +:::SET BOOK 1 Peter +:::SET TITLE The First Epistle General of Peter +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, +2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. +3 Blessed __be__ the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, +4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, +5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. +6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: +7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: +8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see __him__ not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: +9 Receiving the end of your faith, __even__ the salvation of __your__ souls. +10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace __that__ __should__ __come__ unto you: +11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. +12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. +13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; +14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: +15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; +16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. +17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning __here__ in fear: +18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, __as__ silver and gold, from your vain conversation __received__ by tradition from your fathers; +19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: +20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, +21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. +22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, __see__ __that__ __ye__ love one another with a pure heart fervently: +23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. +24 For all flesh __is__ as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: +25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, +2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: +3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord __is__ gracious. +4 To whom coming, __as__ __unto__ a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, __and__ precious, +5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. +6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. +7 Unto you therefore which believe __he__ __is__ precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, +8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, __even__ __to__ __them__ which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. +9 But ye __are__ a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: +10 Which in time past __were__ not a people, but __are__ now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. +11 Dearly beloved, I beseech __you__ as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; +12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by __your__ good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. +13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; +14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. +15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: +16 As free, and not using __your__ liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. +17 Honour all __men__. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. +18 Servants, __be__ subject to __your__ masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. +19 For this __is__ thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. +20 For what glory __is__ __it__, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer __for__ __it__, ye take it patiently, this __is__ acceptable with God. +21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: +22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: +23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed __himself__ to him that judgeth righteously: +24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. +25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 LIKEWISE, ye wives, __be__ in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; +2 While they behold your chaste conversation __coupled__ with fear. +3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward __adorning__ of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; +4 But __let__ __it__ __be__ the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, __even__ __the__ __ornament__ of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. +5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: +6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. +7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with __them__ according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. +8 Finally, __be__ __ye__ all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, __be__ pitiful, __be__ courteous: +9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. +10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: +11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. +12 For the eyes of the Lord __are__ over the righteous, and his ears __are__ __open__ unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord __is__ against them that do evil. +13 And who __is__ he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? +14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy __are__ __ye:__ and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; +15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and __be__ ready always to __give__ an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: +16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. +17 For __it__ __is__ better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. +18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: +19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; +20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. +21 The like figure whereunto __even__ baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: +22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 FORASMUCH then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; +2 That he no longer should live the rest of __his__ time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. +3 For the time past of __our__ life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: +4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with __them__ to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of __you:__ +5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. +6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. +7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. +8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. +9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging. +10 As every man hath received the gift, __even__ __so__ minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. +11 If any man speak, __let__ __him__ __speak__ as the oracles of God; if any man minister, __let__ __him__ __do__ __it__ as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. +12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: +13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. +14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy __are__ __ye;__ for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. +15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or __as__ a thief, or __as__ an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. +16 Yet if __any__ __man__ __suffer__ as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. +17 For the time __is__ __come__ that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if __it__ first __begin__ at us, what shall the end __be__ of them that obey not the gospel of God? +18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? +19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls __to__ __him__ in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 THE elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: +2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight __thereof__, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; +3 Neither as being lords over __God__'__s__ heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. +4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. +5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all __of__ __you__ be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. +6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: +7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. +8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: +9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. +10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle __you__. +11 To him __be__ glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. +12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand. +13 The __church__ __that__ __is__ at Babylon, elected together with __you__, saluteth you; and __so__ __doth__ Marcus my son. +14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace __be__ with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen. +:::SET BOOK 2 Peter +:::SET TITLE The Second Epistle General of Peter +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 SIMON Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: +2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, +3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that __pertain__ unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: +4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. +5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; +6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; +7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. +8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make __you__ __that__ __ye__ __shall__ neither __be__ barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. +9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. +10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: +11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. +12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know __them__, and be established in the present truth. +13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting __you__ in remembrance; +14 Knowing that shortly I must put off __this__ my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. +15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. +16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. +17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. +18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. +19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: +20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. +21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake __as__ __they__ __were__ moved by the Holy Ghost. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. +2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. +3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. +4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast __them__ down to hell, and delivered __them__ into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; +5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth __person__, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; +6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned __them__ with an overthrow, making __them__ an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; +7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: +8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed __his__ righteous soul from day to day with __their__ unlawful deeds;) +9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: +10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous __are__ __they__, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. +11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. +12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; +13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, __as__ they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots __they__ __are__ and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; +14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: +15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam __the__ __son__ of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; +16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. +17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. +18 For when they speak great swelling __words__ of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, __through__ __much__ wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. +19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. +20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. +21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known __it__, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. +22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog __is__ turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 THIS second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in __both__ which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: +2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: +3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, +4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as __they__ __were__ from the beginning of the creation. +5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: +6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: +7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. +8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day __is__ with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. +9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. +10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. +11 __Seeing__ then __that__ all these things shall be dissolved, what manner __of__ __persons__ ought ye to be in __all__ holy conversation and godliness, +12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? +13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. +14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. +15 And account __that__ the longsuffering of our Lord __is__ salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; +16 As also in all __his__ epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as __they__ __do__ also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. +17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know __these__ __things__ before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. +18 But grow in grace, and __in__ the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him __be__ glory both now and for ever. Amen. +:::SET BOOK 1 John +:::SET TITLE The First Epistle General of John +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; +2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen __it__, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) +3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship __is__ with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. +4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. +5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. +6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: +7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. +8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. +9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us __our__ sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. +10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 MY little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: +2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for __the__ __sins__ __of__ the whole world. +3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. +4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. +5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. +6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. +7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. +8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. +9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. +10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. +11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. +12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. +13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him __that__ __is__ from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. +14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him __that__ __is__ from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. +15 Love not the world, neither the things __that__ __are__ in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. +16 For all that __is__ in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. +17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. +18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. +19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would __no__ __doubt__ have continued with us: but __they__ __went__ __out__, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. +20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. +21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. +22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. +23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [__but__] __he__ __that__ __acknowledgeth__ __the__ __Son__ __hath__ __the__ __Father__ __also__. +24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. +25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, __even__ eternal life. +26 These __things__ have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. +27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. +28 And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. +29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. +2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. +3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. +4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. +5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. +6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. +7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. +8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. +9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. +10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. +11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. +12 Not as Cain, __who__ was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous. +13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. +14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not __his__ brother abideth in death. +15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. +16 Hereby perceive we the love __of__ __God__, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down __our__ lives for the brethren. +17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels __of__ __compassion__ from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? +18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. +19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. +20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. +21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, __then__ have we confidence toward God. +22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. +23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. +24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. +2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: +3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that __spirit__ of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. +4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. +5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. +6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. +7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. +8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. +9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. +10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son __to__ __be__ the propitiation for our sins. +11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. +12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. +13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. +14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son __to__ __be__ the Saviour of the world. +15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. +16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. +17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. +18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. +19 We love him, because he first loved us. +20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? +21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 WHOSOEVER believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. +2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. +3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. +4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, __even__ our faith. +5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? +6 This is he that came by water and blood, __even__ Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. +7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. +8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. +9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. +10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. +11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. +12 He that hath the Son hath life; __and__ he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. +13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. +14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: +15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. +16 If any man see his brother sin a sin __which__ __is__ not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. +17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. +18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. +19 __And__ we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. +20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, __even__ in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. +21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. +:::SET BOOK 2 John +:::SET TITLE The Second Epistle of John +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; +2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. +3 Grace be with you, mercy, __and__ peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. +4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. +5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. +6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. +7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. +8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. +9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. +10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into __your__ house, neither bid him God speed: +11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. +12 Having many things to write unto you, I would not __write__ with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. +13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen. +:::SET BOOK 3 John +:::SET TITLE The Third Epistle of John +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth. +2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. +3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. +4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. +5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; +6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: +7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. +8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth. +9 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. +10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth __them__ out of the church. +11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God. +12 Demetrius hath good report of all __men__, and of the truth itself: yea, and we __also__ bear record; and ye know that our record is true. +13 I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: +14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace __be__ to thee. __Our__ friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name. +:::SET BOOK Jude +:::SET TITLE The General Epistle of Jude +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 JUDE, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, __and__ called: +2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. +3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort __you__ that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. +4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. +5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. +6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. +7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. +8 Likewise also these __filthy__ dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. +9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. +10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. +11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. +12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds __they__ __are__ without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; +13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. +14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, +15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard __speeches__ which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. +16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling __words__, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. +17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; +18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. +19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. +20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, +21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. +22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: +23 And others save with fear, pulling __them__ out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. +24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present __you__ faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, +25 To the only wise God our Saviour, __be__ glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. +:::SET BOOK Revelation +:::SET TITLE The Revelation of St. John the Divine +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THE Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified __it__ by his angel unto his servant John: +2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. +3 Blessed __is__ he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time __is__ at hand. +4 JOHN to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace __be__ unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; +5 And from Jesus Christ, __who__ __is__ the faithful witness, __and__ the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, +6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him __be__ glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. +7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they __also__ which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. +8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. +9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. +10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, +11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send __it__ unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. +12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; +13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks __one__ like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. +14 His head and __his__ hairs __were__ white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes __were__ as a flame of fire; +15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. +16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance __was__ as the sun shineth in his strength. +17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: +18 __I__ __am__ he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. +19 Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; +20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +1 UNTO the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; +2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: +3 And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. +4 Nevertheless I have __somewhat__ against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. +5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. +6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. +7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. +8 And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; +9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and __I__ __know__ the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but __are__ the synagogue of Satan. +10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast __some__ of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. +11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. +12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; +13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, __even__ where Satan's seat __is:__ and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas __was__ my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. +14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. +15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. +16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. +17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth __it__. +18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet __are__ like fine brass; +19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last __to__ __be__ more than the first. +20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. +21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. +22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. +23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. +24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. +25 But that which ye have __already__ hold fast till I come. +26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: +27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. +28 And I will give him the morning star. +29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. +:::SET CHAPTER 3 +1 AND unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. +2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. +3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. +4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. +5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. +6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. +7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; +8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. +9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. +10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. +11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. +12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, __which__ __is__ new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and __I__ __will__ __write__ __upon__ __him__ my new name. +13 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. +14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; +15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. +16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. +17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: +18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and __that__ the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. +19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. +20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. +21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. +22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. +:::SET CHAPTER 4 +1 AFTER this I looked, and, behold, a door __was__ opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard __was__ as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. +2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and __one__ sat on the throne. +3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and __there__ __was__ a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. +4 And round about the throne __were__ four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. +5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and __there__ __were__ seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. +6 And before the throne __there__ __was__ a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, __were__ four beasts full of eyes before and behind. +7 And the first beast __was__ like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast __was__ like a flying eagle. +8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about __him;__ and __they__ __were__ full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. +9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, +10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, +11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. +:::SET CHAPTER 5 +1 AND I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. +2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? +3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. +4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. +5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. +6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. +7 And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. +8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four __and__ twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. +9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; +10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. +11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; +12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. +13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, __be__ unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. +14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four __and__ twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. +:::SET CHAPTER 6 +1 AND I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. +2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. +3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. +4 And there went out another horse __that__ __was__ red: and __power__ was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. +5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. +6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and __see__ thou hurt not the oil and the wine. +7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. +8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. +9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: +10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? +11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they __were__, should be fulfilled. +12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; +13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. +14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. +15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; +16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: +17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? +:::SET CHAPTER 7 +1 AND after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. +2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, +3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. +4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: __and__ __there__ __were__ sealed an hundred __and__ forty __and__ four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. +5 Of the tribe of Juda __were__ sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben __were__ sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad __were__ sealed twelve thousand. +6 Of the tribe of Aser __were__ sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim __were__ sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses __were__ sealed twelve thousand. +7 Of the tribe of Simeon __were__ sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi __were__ sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar __were__ sealed twelve thousand. +8 Of the tribe of Zabulon __were__ sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph __were__ sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin __were__ sealed twelve thousand. +9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; +10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. +11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and __about__ the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, +12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, __be__ unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. +13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? +14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. +15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. +16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. +17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. +:::SET CHAPTER 8 +1 AND when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. +2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. +3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer __it__ with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. +4 And the smoke of the incense, __which__ __came__ with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. +5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast __it__ into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. +6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. +7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. +8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; +9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. +10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; +11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. +12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. +13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! +:::SET CHAPTER 9 +1 AND the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. +2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. +3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. +4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. +5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment __was__ as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. +6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. +7 And the shapes of the locusts __were__ like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads __were__ as it were crowns like gold, and their faces __were__ as the faces of men. +8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as __the__ __teeth__ of lions. +9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings __was__ as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. +10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power __was__ to hurt men five months. +11 And they had a king over them, __which__ __is__ the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue __is__ Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath __his__ name Apollyon. +12 One woe is past; __and__, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. +13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, +14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. +15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. +16 And the number of the army of the horsemen __were__ two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. +17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses __were__ as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. +18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. +19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails __were__ like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. +20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: +21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. +:::SET CHAPTER 10 +1 AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow __was__ upon his head, and his face __was__ as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: +2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and __his__ left __foot__ on the earth, +3 And cried with a loud voice, as __when__ a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. +4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. +5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, +6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: +7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. +8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go __and__ take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. +9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take __it__, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. +10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. +11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. +:::SET CHAPTER 11 +1 AND there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. +2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty __and__ two months. +3 And I will give __power__ unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred __and__ threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. +4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. +5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. +6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. +7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. +8 And their dead bodies __shall__ __lie__ in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. +9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. +10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. +11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. +12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. +13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. +14 The second woe is past; __and__, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. +15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become __the__ __kingdoms__ of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. +16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, +17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. +18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. +19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. +:::SET CHAPTER 12 +1 AND there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: +2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. +3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. +4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. +5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and __to__ his throne. +6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred __and__ threescore days. +7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, +8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. +9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. +10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. +11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. +12 Therefore rejoice, __ye__ heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. +13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man __child__. +14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. +15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. +16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. +17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. +:::SET CHAPTER 13 +1 AND I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. +2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as __the__ __feet__ of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. +3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. +4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who __is__ like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? +5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty __and__ two months. +6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. +7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. +8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. +9 If any man have an ear, let him hear. +10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. +11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. +12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. +13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, +14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by __the__ __means__ __of__ those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. +15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. +16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: +17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. +18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number __is__ Six hundred threescore __and__ six. +:::SET CHAPTER 14 +1 AND I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty __and__ four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. +2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: +3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred __and__ forty __and__ four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. +4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, __being__ the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. +5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God. +6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, +7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. +8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. +9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive __his__ mark in his forehead, or in his hand, +10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: +11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. +12 Here is the patience of the saints: here __are__ they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. +13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed __are__ the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. +14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud __one__ sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. +15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. +16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. +17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. +18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. +19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast __it__ into the great winepress of the wrath of God. +20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand __and__ six hundred furlongs. +:::SET CHAPTER 15 +1 AND I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God. +2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, __and__ over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. +3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous __are__ thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true __are__ thy ways, thou King of saints. +4 Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for __thou__ only __art__ holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest. +5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: +6 And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles. +7 And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. +8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. +:::SET CHAPTER 16 +1 AND I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. +2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and __upon__ them which worshipped his image. +3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead __man:__ and every living soul died in the sea. +4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. +5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. +6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. +7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous __are__ thy judgments. +8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. +9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. +10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, +11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. +12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. +13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs __come__ out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. +14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, __which__ go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. +15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed __is__ he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. +16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. +17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. +18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, __and__ so great. +19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. +20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. +21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, __every__ __stone__ about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. +:::SET CHAPTER 17 +1 AND there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: +2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. +3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. +4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: +5 And upon her forehead __was__ a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. +6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. +7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. +8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. +9 And here __is__ the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. +10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, __and__ the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. +11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. +12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. +13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. +14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him __are__ called, and chosen, and faithful. +15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. +16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. +17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. +18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 18 +1 AND after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. +2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. +3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. +4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. +5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. +6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. +7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. +8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong __is__ the Lord God who judgeth her. +9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, +10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. +11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: +12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, +13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. +14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. +15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, +16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! +17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, +18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What __city__ __is__ like unto this great city! +19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. +20 Rejoice over her, __thou__ heaven, and __ye__ holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. +21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast __it__ into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. +22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft __he__ __be__, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; +23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. +24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. +:::SET CHAPTER 19 +1 AND after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: +2 For true and righteous __are__ his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. +3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. +4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. +5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. +6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. +7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. +8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. +9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed __are__ they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. +10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See __thou__ __do__ __it__ not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. +11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him __was__ called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. +12 His eyes __were__ as a flame of fire, and on his head __were__ many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. +13 And he __was__ clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. +14 And the armies __which__ __were__ in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. +15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. +16 And he hath on __his__ vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. +17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; +18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all __men__, __both__ free and bond, both small and great. +19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. +20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. +21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which __sword__ proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. +:::SET CHAPTER 20 +1 AND I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. +2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, +3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. +4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and __I__ __saw__ the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received __his__ mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. +5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This __is__ the first resurrection. +6 Blessed and holy __is__ he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. +7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, +8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom __is__ as the sand of the sea. +9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. +10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet __are__, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. +11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. +12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is __the__ __book__ of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. +13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. +14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. +15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. +:::SET CHAPTER 21 +1 AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. +2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. +3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God __is__ with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, __and__ __be__ their God. +4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. +5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. +6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. +7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. +8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. +9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. +10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, +11 Having the glory of God: and her light __was__ like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; +12 And had a wall great and high, __and__ had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are __the__ __names__ of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: +13 On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. +14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. +15 And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. +16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. +17 And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred __and__ forty __and__ four cubits, __according__ __to__ the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. +18 And the building of the wall of it was __of__ jasper: and the city __was__ pure gold, like unto clear glass. +19 And the foundations of the wall of the city __were__ garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation __was__ jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; +20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. +21 And the twelve gates __were__ twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city __was__ pure gold, as it were transparent glass. +22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. +23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb __is__ the light thereof. +24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. +25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. +26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. +27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither __whatsoever__ worketh abomination, or __maketh__ a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. +:::SET CHAPTER 22 +1 AND he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. +2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, __was__ __there__ the tree of life, which bare twelve __manner__ __of__ fruits, __and__ yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree __were__ for the healing of the nations. +3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: +4 And they shall see his face; and his name __shall__ __be__ in their foreheads. +5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. +6 And he said unto me, These sayings __are__ faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. +7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed __is__ he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. +8 And I John saw these things, and heard __them__. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. +9 Then saith he unto me, See __thou__ __do__ __it__ not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. +10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. +11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. +12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward __is__ with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. +13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. +14 Blessed __are__ they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. +15 For without __are__ dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. +16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, __and__ the bright and morning star. +17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. +18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: +19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and __from__ the things which are written in this book. +20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. +21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ __be__ with you all. Amen. +> **THE END.** +:::SET CHAPTER END diff --git a/doc/example.png b/doc/example.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b315464 Binary files /dev/null and b/doc/example.png differ diff --git a/generate.awk b/generate.awk new file mode 100755 index 0000000..a7acd5c --- /dev/null +++ b/generate.awk @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env gawk -f + +function acopy(a, b) { + delete b + for (k in a) { + b[k] = a[k] + } +} + +BEGIN { + delete verses; delete current; delete previous; + kjv_toc = "KJV.md" + OFS="" +} + +# collect :::SET K V state +match($0, /^:::SET\s+(\w+)\s+(.*)/, ord) { + if (length(verses) > 0 && length(current)==0) { + acopy(meta, current) + } + meta[ord[1]] = ord[2]; +} + +# begin TOC +match($0, /^:::SET\s+TESTAMENT\s+(.*)/, ord) { + print "- [[", ord[1], " Testament]]" >> kjv_toc +} + +match($0, /^:::SET\s+BOOK\s+(.*)/, ord) { + meta["BOOKCHAPTER"] = ord[1] + print " - [[", ord[1], "]]" >> kjv_toc +} + +match($0, /^:::SET\s+CHAPTER\s+(.*)/, ord) { + if (ord[1] != "END") { + print " - [[", meta["BOOKCHAPTER"], " ", ord[1], "]]" >> kjv_toc + } +} +# end TOC + +# flush signal, print chapter +/^:::SET\s+CHAPTER\s.*/ { + if (length(verses) > 0) { + of = current["BOOKCHAPTER"] " " current["CHAPTER"] ".md"; + if (length(previous)!=0) { + print "- Previous:: [[", previous["BOOKCHAPTER"], " ", previous["CHAPTER"], "]]" >> of + } + if (meta["CHAPTER"]!="END") { + print "- Next:: [[", meta["BOOKCHAPTER"], " ", meta["CHAPTER"], "]]" >> of + } + print "- Tags:: #Bible #KJV #[[", current["BOOK"], "]]" >> of + for (i = 1; i <= length(verses); i++) { + print "- ", verses[i] >> of + } + delete verses + + acopy(current, previous) + delete current + } +} + +/^:::.*/ { next } + +# push a verse +{ verses[length(verses)+1]=$0 } diff --git a/test/.gitignore b/test/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea1472e --- /dev/null +++ b/test/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +output/ diff --git a/test/expected/1 Testing 1.md b/test/expected/1 Testing 1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..210b6bc --- /dev/null +++ b/test/expected/1 Testing 1.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +- Next:: [[1 Testing 2]] +- Tags:: #Bible #KJV #[[1 Testing]] +- 1 THIS is the first verse of chapter 1 +- 2 A second verse +- > a footnote diff --git a/test/expected/1 Testing 2.md b/test/expected/1 Testing 2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..18ee56d --- /dev/null +++ b/test/expected/1 Testing 2.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +- Previous:: [[1 Testing 1]] +- Next:: [[Psalm 1]] +- Tags:: #Bible #KJV #[[1 Testing]] +- **a non-verse heading** +- 1 A second chapter verse +- 2 A second chapter second verse diff --git a/test/expected/A Book 1.md b/test/expected/A Book 1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc60cad --- /dev/null +++ b/test/expected/A Book 1.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +- Previous:: [[Psalm 1]] +- Tags:: #Bible #KJV #[[A Book]] +- 1 Not much more to go diff --git a/test/expected/KJV.md b/test/expected/KJV.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b83f48c --- /dev/null +++ b/test/expected/KJV.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +- [[Test Testament]] + - [[1 Testing]] + - [[1 Testing 1]] + - [[1 Testing 2]] + - [[Psalms]] + - [[Psalm 1]] + - [[A Book]] + - [[A Book 1]] diff --git a/test/expected/Psalm 1.md b/test/expected/Psalm 1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a35deb --- /dev/null +++ b/test/expected/Psalm 1.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +- Previous:: [[1 Testing 2]] +- Next:: [[A Book 1]] +- Tags:: #Bible #KJV #[[Psalms]] +- 1 Verse the first +- 2 Verse the second +- 3 Verse the third diff --git a/test/fixture.input b/test/fixture.input new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a3395e --- /dev/null +++ b/test/fixture.input @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +:::SET TESTAMENT Test +:::SET BOOK 1 Testing +:::SET TITLE The First Test General of Testing +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 THIS is the first verse of chapter 1 +2 A second verse +> a footnote +:::SET CHAPTER 2 +**a non-verse heading** +1 A second chapter verse +2 A second chapter second verse +:::SET BOOK Psalms +:::SET TITLE Book Of Psalms +:::SET BOOKCHAPTER Psalm +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 Verse the first +2 Verse the second +3 Verse the third +:::SET BOOK A Book +:::SET TITLE A Book +:::SET CHAPTER 1 +1 Not much more to go +:::SET CHAPTER END diff --git a/test/run.sh b/test/run.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..545f6ab --- /dev/null +++ b/test/run.sh @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash + +set -euo pipefail + +pushd test/output +rm -f *.md +../../generate.awk ../fixture.input +popd + +diff -bur test/expected test/output